Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXs

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

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 05:27:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > This is a reroll of [1]. Thanks to Stolee, Junio, and Peff for
>>> > reviewing.
>>> > ...
>>> > Thanks in advance for your review!
>>>
>>> I am trying to eject stale topics out of my tree, and the discussion
>>> on this topic is about to pass the 1-month mark.  It seems that
>>> comments on half of them are "looks good" and the rest are "just as
>>> confusing as the original without improvement".  How viable is this
>>> topic?  Are we still improving on it, or has it long passed the
>>> point of diminishing returns that nobody is interested in polishing
>>> it any longer?
>>
>> This one should be ready to go as-is!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Taylor
>
> Hmph, the question was not meant to be answered by the author,
> though ;-)

OK, so I bit the bullet and read the patches and their existing
review discussions again myself.  I too were confused by pretty much
the same things Peff commented on being confusing X-<, but I do not
have concrete improvement ideas to offer right now.