Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce new merge-tree-ort command

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 8:53 AM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 8:33 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > During the 2nd Virtual Git Contributors’ Summit last October, and even
> > before, the subject of performing server side merges and rebases came
> > up, as platforms like GitHub and GitLab would like to support many
> > features and data formats that libgit2 doesn't support, like for
> > example SHA256 hashes and partial clone.
> >
...
> > The first patch in the series adds the new command without any test
> > and documentation.
> >
> > The second patch in the series adds a few tests that let us see how
> > the command's output looks like in different very simple cases.
> >
> > Of course if this approach is considered valuable, I plan to add some
> > documentation, more tests and very likely a number of options before
> > submitting the next iteration.
>
> Was there something you didn't like about
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1114.git.git.1640927044.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/?

Since I already had some fixes queued up for that series based on
feedback from Johannes Altmanninger and Fabian Stelzer, I decided to
submit those so you wouldn't have to stumble over the same problems.
So see https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1114.v2.git.git.1641403655.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
instead (which also now has a pointer to this series in the cover
letter).