Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] pickaxe: test and refactoring for follow-up changes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:19:39 -0800

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

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> This is a smaller v2 of the series to remove the kwset backend and
>> make pickaxe use PCRE v2[1].
>>
>> That's not being done here yet. These are mostly small
>> refactoring/test fixes. The most significant work is a new xdiff
>> interface at the end of the series.
>>
>> It's based on next where some preparatory work already landed[2].
>
> Do you really mean <[email-masked]>?
> ...
> I do not think we have that many patches whose title begin with
> grep/pcre2 in 'next'.
>
> In any case, I'd rather not to see things done directly on 'next';
> targetting a selected few topics merged on top of 'master' would
> not be bad, though.

It turns out that these patches textually depend on two topics in
'next', and both are to be merged to 'master' hopefully by the end
of the week, so perhaps that is a good time to queue this topic to
'seen' on top of the then-current master.

Thanks.