On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:49:34AM +0100, Stefan Frühwirth wrote: > On 23.02.2016 at 06:02 Jeff King wrote: > >>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. Even Stefan, the original > >reporter, does not seem to actively be using it, but rather relaying a > >report. > > I _am_ actively using it. Maybe I was unclear on that topic. I'm in favour > of keeping it, because this means I don't have to rewrite Chris' Code in > order to be able to use the Python library that uses merge-tree (Acidfs). > But as a sensible human being I want what's best in the long run. I leave > that up to you as I have no way of assessing that. Ah, sorry for the confusion. I had thought you were just relaying bugs on behalf of acidfs folks, but it makes sense that you are using it indirectly through the library. > So that's a "please don't" leave the code as-is but provide a (transitional) > solution that fixes the reported bug and has the best chances of not causing > any more headaches :) I think the series I posted does what you want, then, and we can stop short of deprecating for now. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html