Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2019, #03; Fri, 11)

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 9:42 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> * en/fast-imexport-nested-tags (2019-10-04) 8 commits
> >>   (merged to 'next' on 2019-10-07 at 3e75779e10)
> >>  + fast-export: handle nested tags
> >>  ...
> >>  + fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing else
> >>
> >>  Updates to fast-import/export.
> >>
> >>  Will merge to 'master'.
> >
> > Any chance this will merge down before 2.24.0?  I'd really like to see
> > and use it within filter-repo.
>
> A few general guidelines I use are that a typical topic spends 1
> week in 'next' (a trivial one-liner may be there for much shorter
> time, an involved multi-patch topic that touches the core part of
> the system may have to spend more), that an involved topic that is
> not in 'master' by rc0 would not appear in the next release, and
> that any topic that is not in 'master' by rc1 needs compelling
> reason to be in the next release.  So it is cutting a bit too close
> for this topic, it seems, but we'll see.

:-(

Did I shoot myself in the foot by being quick to jump on Rene's couple
of cosmetic touch-up suggestions he posted over a week after the
series was originally posted?  In other words, if I hadn't stopped you
from merging the series down to next to incorporate those
clean-ups[1], would the story have been different?

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CABPp-BHvzyLf=Wwhv45qKdKjiTVwHtsMdfA0hd5Ejf5fmhHyPg@mail.gmail.com/