Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2014, #04; Tue, 26)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:31:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   - jk/send-pack-many-refspecs; this is in pu, but I didn't see it in
> >     "what's cooking". I'm concerned that the "ulimit" test gave you
> >     trouble and you punted on it. :)
> 
> It was picked up after the day's edition of "What's cooking" was
> written, or something, I think.

Ah, sorry to nag, then.

> >   - "fast-export --anonymize"; I noticed you didn't pick this up at all.
> >     I agree it has yet to prove its worth, but I wonder if it is worth
> >     shipping it (possibly labeled as experimental and not to be depended
> >     on) to get it in the hands of users. The intended use is getting bug
> >     reports from users, who are not always savvy enough to pick up (and
> >     possibly rebase) a patch from the list. I dunno.
> 
> I was waiting for the topic to calm down a bit, without knowing if
> there will or will not be a reroll with some low-hanging fruit
> enhancement based on the discussion, to avoid an "oops, need to
> replace the one I queued but haven't pushed out yet with the new
> reroll".

Makes sense. I think the v2 I sent[1] is OK, and as far as I was
planning to take it for now (there were some other possible enhancements
discussed, but I think those can happen in-tree if somebody feels like
working on it).

-Peff

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/255646