On 2023-09-11 at 16:13:27, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Junio, brian for the very warm reception of this, it is very > encouraging. > > I am not worried about what it will take time to get the changes I > posted into the integration. I had only envisioned them as good enough > to get the technical ideas across, and had never envisioned them as > being accepted as is. > > What I am envisioning as my future directions are: > > - Post non controversial cleanups, so they can be merged. > (I can only see about 4 of them the most significant is: > bulk-checkin: Only accept blobs) > > - Sort out the configuration options > > - Post the smallest patchset I can that will allow testing the code in > object-file-convert.c. Unfortunately for that I need configuration > options to enable the mapping. > > In starting to write the tests I have already found a bug in > the conversion of tags (an extra newline is added), and I haven't > even gotten to testing the tricky bits with signatures. I wonder if unit tests are a possibility here now that we're starting to use them. They're not obligatory, of course, but it may be more convenient for you if they turn out to be a suitable option. If not, no big deal. > - Once the object file conversion is tested and is solid work on > the more substantial pieces. > > Does that sound like a reasonable plan? Yeah, that seems fine. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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