[Cake] Cake tree unreadable

[Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>]

In the nicest possible way… what on earth is going on with the cake source tree of late?  Many ‘cascaded’ merges make things impossible to read and stuff appears to be getting lost as well. e.g. the recent change "Switch ingress failsafe to 2/3 instead of 1/4 bandwidth.” has now appeared twice, the first time having somehow got lost.  What on earth is going on?

It’s as if there are at least 3 repos that have all got out of step with each other and now each time a merge is required from one it pulls in all the merges from the others.  May I suggest a ‘git fetch —all’, take a safety copy branch pointer of where you are now ‘git checkout -b safety’, switch back to where you were ‘git checkout cobalt’, reset the pointer and current work tree to upstream’s sane state ‘git reset —hard upstream/cobalt’ and finally a ‘git diff safety’ to see what’s missing between the two.  ‘git cherry-pick missing-commit’ to grab any missing commit/s determined by looking at the diff.