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On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 01:44 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 08:08:25AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> > the mechanical one file at a time fixing
> > X.  I think we need someone to be the gatekeeper and review and apply
> > the script in one go.
> 
> I often find myself writing this kind of tree-wide fix, and I find it
> frustrating that it can't get merged as a unit; that would avoid the
> inevitable pile of merge conflicts, as well.  For anything that can be
> reliably applied as a script, I'd love to see it actually run as a
> script and the result committed.

Can you propose a mechanism?  We already have the trivial tree ...
should we have the script tree, and would you volunteer to maintain it?
Probably we'd run the script just after the merge window closes, so it
would likely be a late merging tree.

James