Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:44:13PM -0600, Taylor Blau wrote: > >> What do you want to do about the final patch that I stuck on the end of >> this series in [1]? If I don't hear from anybody, I'll send it as 5/5 in >> v3 and we can feel free to not apply it if it's controversial. > > I have to admit I don't care that much either way about it (see my > earlier response on three mental models). I'm happy for you or Junio to > decide. :) My gut feeling is that our longer term goal (if we had timeperiod during which the codebase is quiescent enough and infinite energy to dedicate on code clean-up) among one or your options should be to consistently create files that are rewritten-and-renamed read-only, to discourage casual tampering, so I am OK with that 5th patch. Having said that, I suspect that Derrick and friends are larger stakeholders in the "chain" file, so I'd prefer to see us basing the choice on their input. Thanks.
