On 7/20/2018 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Derrick Stolee <sto...@gmail.com> writes:

   What's the doneness of this one?  I vaguely recall that there was
   an objection against the concept as a whole (i.e. there is a way
   with less damage to gain the same object-abbrev performance); has
   it (and if anything else, they) been resolved in satisfactory
   fashion?
I believe you're talking about Ævar's patch series [1] on
unconditional abbreviation lengths.
Yes, this is a total tangent, but what happened to that one?  I did
not queue because I was led to expect v2 to follow soonish [*1*].

Lookup speeds improve in a multi-pack environment.
True.  I recall that years ago there was a discussion, but nobody
came up with patches, to do the consolidated .idx for exactly that
reason (not the "abbrev" reason).

That's the best I can do to sell the feature as it stands now (plus
the 'fsck' integration that would follow after this series is
accepted).
Heh, 'fsck' intergration is not a 'feature' to sell anything, I
would think.  Nobody wants to run fsck for the sake of running
it---it is just having one extra file that must not go corrupt
_requires_ one to have a way to check its integrity and fsck is the
logical place to do so X-<.

Yep. I didn't mean 'fsck' is a selling point, but that it is an important thing to build for anything that is going in the objects directory. I mention it only to say that I'm committed to providing that functionality.

In any case, we've had this for about a week in 'pu' after 4
iterations, and review comments seem to have quieted down [*2*], so
let's consider merging it down to 'next'.  I think at least I need
to "commit --amend" (or something like that) 16/23.

Right. There is a commit message error and some spaces to insert. See [2] if you need a reminder. Thanks!

[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqin5kupu3....@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

[Footnotes]

*1* <87a7s4471y....@evledraar.gmail.com>

*2* That does not indicate either of these two:

     - nobody is interested in the topic
     - the topic is now without any flaw

     It only means that keeping it in 'pu' as a dormant topic would
     not do anybody any good.

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