Re: New “ungrafting” branch

[zimoun]

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 12:29, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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’.

I have missed the discussion on IRC and I do not understand the
rationale.  What's the point of "ungrafting"?

All the best,
simon