Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I am planning to merge this series early to 'master', before the GSoC
> student really starts working on the code, perhaps by this Wednesday. The
> earlier parts of this series refactor code to make things easier to
> modify, and the later parts of it demonstrate by example both:
>
> (1) how the backward compatibility must be handled at the design level
> [*1*]; and
>
> (2) how such a design can be coded cleanly at the implementation level.
>
> The hope is that this will give a solidified base to build whatever new
> work on top of (perhaps call it v5).
[...]
> How do you want to proceed?
I was initially a bit reluctant to add this complexity so shortly before
the GSoC starts in earnest. But the cleanups are really worth it, and
then it's not *that* much code for a quite substantial speedup for
webkit.
So go ahead and merge it. Thomas can build on top, though I'm still
hoping he'll start before you complete the merge, and learn a bit about
basing work on top of unmerged topics ;-)
> I do not mind David's further work built on top of this series, but I
> think the entry-shrinkage design for v4 is good enough as-is.
My impression was that David just tossed around ideas (very
well-researched and tested ones, but still ideas) to help Thomas.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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