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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:35:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BF=+-ieP8fCxWWuvhe2dTTMKVGnYSTJuV6H9Z+zYs0SNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75170ee7-525e-31fc-f6bd-6dfac12b00c8@gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 9:09 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/2020 3:43 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > Elijah Newren (20):
> >   merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures
> >   merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure
> >   merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive
> >   merge-ort: use histogram diff
> >   merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive
> >   merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info()
> >   merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree
> >   merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info
> >   merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path
> >   merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees
> >   merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation
> >   merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order
>
> I got this far before my attention to detail really started slipping.
>
> >   merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids
> >   merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object
> >   merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go
> >   merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result()
> >   merge-ort: add implementation of checkout()
> >   tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere
> >   merge-ort: add implementation of record_unmerged_index_entries()
> >   merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize()
>
> I'll try to take another pass on these commits tomorrow.
>
> For the series as a whole I'd love to see at least one test that
> demonstrates that this code does something, if even only for a very
> narrow case.
>
> There's a lot of code being moved here, and it would be nice to have
> even a very simple test case that can check that we didn't leave any
> important die("not implemented") calls lying around or worse accessing
> an uninitialized pointer or something.

We absolutely left several die("not implemented") calls lying around.
The series was long enough at 20 patches; reviewers lose steam at 10
(at least both you and Jonathan have), so maybe I should have left
even more in there as an attempt to split up this series more.

However, if you run the testsuite with GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM=ort,
then this series drops the number of failures in the testsuite from
around 2200, down to 1500.  So, there's about 700 testcases for you.

Also, there were several preparatory series all designed for getting
the testsuite in order for this new merge algorithm.  See the
following currently cooking topics:
  * en/merge-tests topic
  * en/dir-rename-tests
and the following topics that were previously merged:
  * 36d225c7d4 ("Merge branch 'en/merge-tests'", 2020-08-19)
  * cf372dc815 ("Merge branch 'en/test-cleanup'", 2020-03-09)
  * ac193e0e0a ("Merge branch 'en/merge-path-collision'", 2019-01-04)
  * c99033060f ("Merge branch
'en/t7405-recursive-submodule-conflicts'", 2018-08-02)
  * e6da45c7cd ("Merge branch 'en/t6036-merge-recursive-tests'", 2018-08-02)
  * 84e74c6403 ("Merge branch
'en/t6042-insane-merge-rename-testcases'", 2018-08-02)
  * bba1a5559c ("Merge branch 'en/t6036-recursive-corner-cases'", 2018-08-02)
  * 93b74a7cfa ("Merge branch 'en/merge-recursive-tests'", 2018-06-25)
and maybe others I missed.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-11 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-02 20:43 [PATCH v2 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures Elijah Newren
2020-11-06 22:05   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-06 22:45     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 20:55       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 13:52   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 16:22     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] merge-ort: use histogram diff Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 13:54   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 16:47     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 16:51       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 17:03         ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 13:58   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 17:07     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 17:10       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info() Elijah Newren
2020-11-06 22:19   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-06 23:10     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 20:59       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-11 14:38   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 17:02     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 14:51   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 17:13     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 17:21       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info Elijah Newren
2020-11-06 22:52   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-06 23:41     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 22:04       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-09 23:05         ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path Elijah Newren
2020-11-06 22:58   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-07  0:26     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 22:09       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-09 23:08         ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 15:26   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 18:16     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 22:06       ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-12 18:23         ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-12 18:39       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 15:31   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 19:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-12  1:48     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 16:09   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 18:58     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 20:01   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-11 20:24     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-12 20:39       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 20:47   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-11 21:21     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go Elijah Newren
2020-11-12 20:15   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-12 22:30     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-24 20:19       ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-25  2:07         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-26 18:13           ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-30 18:41             ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result() Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] merge-ort: add implementation of checkout() Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] merge-ort: add implementation of record_unmerged_index_entries() Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize() Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 14:49 ` [PATCH v2 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Derrick Stolee
2020-11-03 16:36   ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-07  6:06     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-07 15:02       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-07 19:39         ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 12:30           ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-09 17:13             ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-09 19:51               ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-09 22:44                 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 17:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 18:35   ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2020-11-11 20:48     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 21:18       ` Elijah Newren
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2020-11-29  7:43 [PATCH " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget

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