[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] GitHub anyone?

Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev
Tue, 31 May 2016 20:31:49 -0000

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:24:08PM -0400, Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev
wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Renato Golin via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > There has been some discussion on IRC about SVN hosting and the perils
> > of doing it ourselves. The consensus on the current discussion was
> > that moving to a Git-only solution would have some disvantages, but
> > many advantages. Furthermore, not hosting our own repos would save us
> > a lot of headaches, admin costs and timed out connections.
>
> Not everyone thinks git is a step forward. Please do not force people
> to use a "git-only" solution.

Amen.

> > 2. Due to SVN, we have a mandatory time sequence, so commits go first
> > in LLVM, then Clang (for example), and buildbots don't get lost.
If we
> > use submodules [1], we can have a similar relationship, but in a more
> > explicit way, and the problem could be solved elegantly.
>
> I actually consider the monotonically increasing revisions to be a
> feature, but not sufficient to warrant a decision one way or the
> other.

Has the situation with git-submodules and bisect improved at all or is
bisecting clang+llvm going to be manual mess?

Joerg