Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] update-ref: add symref support for --stdin

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 09:03:53 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Wait.  There is something fishy going on.
>
>> Range diff vs v1:
>>  1:  1bc4cc3fc4 =  1:  1bc4cc3fc4 refs: accept symref values in `ref_transac...
>>...
>>  8:  4865707bda =  8:  4865707bda refs: remove `create_symref` and associated dead code
>>  9:  4cb67dce7c !  9:  2bbdeff798 refs: create and use `ref_update_ref_must_exist()`
> ...
> I am confused why we are seeing a total reroll of such an old topic.
>
> Also you have one more patch at the end.  Neither the before or
> after version of 9/9.
>
> Is this actually a single patch submission of 9/9 alone?  Patches
> 1-8/9 are all old ones that are in 'master' already.

And then there is a mystery of this v2 being a 6-patch series.
Perhpas a wrong range-diff was pasted into it?  If this were truly a
total reroll of the previous 8-patch series with an extra step
appended to the end, it would have been a 9-patch series, not 6.

Even puzzled...