Re: New “ungrafting” branch

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

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'?

On my own system, where I don't use substitutes, I rebased my private
branch onto the 'ungrafting' branch a few weeks ago, rebuilt, and have
been happily using it since.  However, since the 'ungrafting' branch has
fallen behind, I've resorted to adding all of the individual ungrafting
commits onto my private branch, which I now periodically rebase on top
of 'master' as I've been doing for years.

     Regards,
       Mark