From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Sequencer Foundations
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 06:44:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512114415.GA14724@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110512084136.GD28872@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Christian Couder wrote:
>> I think that the risk at this point might be to overengineer things
>> and to lose time, and then we will perhaps find out that we need to do
>> some refactoring of the merge_recursive API anyway.
>
> I agree with the general principle... let's see if I understand the
> details of what you are saying.
It occurs to me now that you were probably talking about the
suggestion of using the lockfile API (i.e., the write temporary/rename
trick). In that case, I agree --- no need to overengineer it and
concurrency problems can be fixed later. Sorry for an overcomplicated
explanation.
And thanks for looking out for these things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 8:00 [PATCH 0/8] Sequencer Foundations Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 1/8] revert: Improve error handling by cascading errors upwards Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 9:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 10:30 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-19 10:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
[not found] ` <20110519091831.GA28723@ramkum.desktop.amazon.com>
2011-05-19 18:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-20 6:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 2/8] revert: Make "commit" and "me" local variables Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 10:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 10:02 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-13 21:40 ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] revert: Introduce a struct to parse command-line options into Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 11:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 9:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-13 10:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 10:22 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 4/8] revert: Separate cmdline argument handling from the functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 11:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 9:09 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-13 9:35 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-13 9:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 5/8] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 12:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 10:07 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 6/8] revert: Introduce head, todo, done files to persist state Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 12:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 10:21 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] revert: Implement parsing --continue, --abort and --skip Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 12:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-13 9:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-13 9:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] revert: Implement --abort processing Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-05-11 13:14 ` [PATCH 0/8] Sequencer Foundations Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-12 8:19 ` Christian Couder
2011-05-12 8:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-12 11:44 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-05-13 9:11 ` Christian Couder
2011-05-13 10:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-16 4:14 ` Christian Couder
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