Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2016, #04; Mon, 17)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

>> On 17 Oct 2016, at 15:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>> * ls/filter-process (2016-10-17) 14 commits
>> - contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
>> - convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
>> - convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
>> - convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
>> - pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
>> - pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
>> - pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
>> - pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
>> - pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
>> - pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
>> - run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
>> - run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
>> - convert: modernize tests
>> - convert: quote filter names in error messages
>> 
>> The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
>> to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined.  A
>> new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
>> request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
>> all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
>> paths, reducing the process creation overhead.
>
> Hi Junio,
>
> what do you think about v11? Do you feel the series is becoming mature
> enough for `next`?

I've already had that feeling a few rounds ago, but I haven't had a
chance to read the most recent one carefully myself to answer that
question honestly.