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Re: New “ungrafting” branch


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: New “ungrafting” branch
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:02:44 -0500

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:57:50AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Following discussions on IRC, I’ve created a new ‘ungrafting’ branch
> > that does nothing but ungraft things.
> >
> > The rationale is that grafts incur additional overhead when installing
> > things (the time to create those grafts), so it’s good to clean them up
> > once in a while.  Ungrafting in a dedicated branch means we know the
> > branch is “safe”, unlike more exploratory branches like ‘staging’ and
> > ‘core-updates’.
> >
> > The plan is to start building it later today, and to hopefully be done
> > in a week or so.
> 
> This is a good initiative, but it seems to have stalled.  Is there a
> reason that it has not yet been merged into 'master'?

The ungrafting branch was merged into the staging branch. Unfortunately,
the staging branch is moving very slowly. I perceive a lack of
interest in working on it :/

I think that the ungrafting branch should have been kept separate and
merged into master quickly.



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