Hi,

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > ... I know I just threw it over the fence, but Daniel picked it up and 
> > got it a lot closer to working?  Did it fall through the cracks or is 
> > it just 1.5.6 material?
> 
> If I recall correctly, "a lot closer to working" happened way after 
> 1.5.5 merge window closed, so it definitely is not 1.5.5 material.
> 
> Judging from the fact that we recently had to deal with the fallouts of 
> C rewrites that happened during the 1.5.4 timeframe, I would have to say 
> that any C rewrite of a substantial and important program needs to be 
> cooked at least for one (or preferably two cycles, especially we are 
> trying to have shorter cycles) in 'next'.

That would mean that you'd have to merge it into 'next'.  And rather 
sooner than later, since everything else would lead to a dragging out of 
the timeline.

As it happens, until you called out the 'please test master' phase, I was 
running with builtin clone, and did not find it lacking.  Although I have 
to admit that I have some cleanups, and I haven't merged with Daniel in a 
long time.  And I do not do anything particularly fancy, such as shallow 
clone or shared clone.

Ciao,
Dscho "who hopes that the please-test-master phase is over soon"