[PATCH] obsolete: add operation metadata to rebase/amend/histedit obsmarkers

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Fri May 19 18:19:08 EDT 2017


> On May 19, 2017, at 15:16, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> I would greatly prefer that we focus our experimenting with the (available) effect-flag approach.

Nobody is saying that you can't try that, and if it works out that'll be great. I'm unwilling to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, especially when the perfect is still an early-phase experiment and the good is here today and solves real usability problems.

> At least, I think we should get the "operation" experiment behind an experimental flag.

You could send that patch?

> The impact on obsmarkers size is significant (+10-20%) and it is poorly usable in distributed context. I would rather limit the change that it end up all over the place and impact use on the long run.


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