Re: [PATCH v2 42/43] refs: add LMDB refs backend
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Oct 7, 2015, 19:08 UTC
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
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> I'm really happy about your work. > > Regarding strategy: I think a good approach would be to get as much of > the preparatory work as possible (the abstraction and separation of > refs-be-files) to the point where it can be merged before there is too > much more code churn in the area. That work is not very controversial, I > think, and letting it wait for a long time will increase the likelihood > of conflicts with other people's changes. The refs-be-lmdb patches, on > the other hand, (1) will take longer to get polished, (2) will take > longer to review because other people are not familiar with LDMB, and > (3) won't bitrot very fast anyway because they don't overlap as much > with areas that other people are likely to work on. So I would advocate > working on those at a more deliberate pace and planning for them to be > merged as a separate batch.
I agree with you on all counts.
My wish is for you to play an interim maintainer starting around week #7 (Nov 9th) of this cycle and merge the early "preparatory" part to 'next' before I come back around the end of November ;-) to be shipped as part of the release at the end of this cycle.
Thanks.