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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Stefan Frühwirth" <stefan.fruehwirth@uni-graz.at>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: whither merge-tree?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:36:36 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602231334050.3152@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160223050210.GA17767@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:45:45PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > 
> > >   3. Drop merge-tree completely. This deletes even more code, and
> > >   helps the people in (2) realize that it is utterly unmaintained.
> > >   :)
> >
> > Let's wait and see how many "please don't"s we hear, perhaps, before
> > deciding to go 3.?
> 
> I'm guessing we won't see much either way.

We could encourage more voices by issuing a warning when merge-tree is
called, e.g.:

	warning: merge-tree is unsupported (please contact
		 git@vger.kernel.org if you use it actively)

Ciao,
Dscho

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-17 22:34 What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #05; Wed, 17) Junio C Hamano
2016-02-17 23:25 ` Jeff King
2016-02-18 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-22 22:12 ` whither merge-tree? (was: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #05; Wed, 17)) Jeff King
2016-02-22 22:45   ` whither merge-tree? Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23  5:02     ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  5:14       ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:03         ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:04           ` [PATCH 1/3] merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:06           ` [PATCH 2/3] merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:07           ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:35           ` whither merge-tree? Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23  7:18             ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  9:49       ` Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-24  7:28         ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-02-24  7:57           ` Jeff King
2016-02-24  7:58         ` Jeff King
2016-02-23 12:36       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-02-23 12:41         ` Duy Nguyen

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