[LLVMdev] rantings about llvm-top

[Reid Spencer]

Holger,

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 11:35 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > - many directories are not svn:ignore'd in llvm-top, e.g.
> > >   cfe, llvm-gcc-4.0, llvm. "svn st" shows you which one.
> >
> > Yeah, again, that's a module maintainer's issue. I can't be
> > cleaning up after everyone. People are just going to have to
> > learn how to use subversion properly. I try to fix things
> > where I find them, but there's just too much going on to be
> > thorough.
> 
> Not quite. llvm-top itself does creates several directory, e.g. 
> by virtue of the "svn co" commands it executes. Those commands 
> are executed by llvm-top, not by the sub-projects llvm-top 
> understands. Here's an example:
> 
> $ svn info
> Path: .
> URL: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm-top/trunk
> Repository Root: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project
> Repository UUID: 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
> Revision: 41115
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: reid
> Last Changed Rev: 41042
> Last Changed Date: 2007-08-13 08:37:41 +0200 (Mon, 13 Aug 2007)
> 
> $ svn st
> ?      build.llvm-gcc-4.0
> ?      llvm-gcc-4.0
> ?      dist
> ?      llvm
> 
> As you can see, four entities are marked as unknown by 
> Subversion. As it happens, all of these entities are 
> directories.

These ones I took care of already with revision 41122. I thought you
were asking about the svn:ignore at lower levels.

> 
> llvm-top created three of them: two while checking out code, one 
> while compiling. So this directories, being llvm-top's own 
> directories, should me marked as svn:ignore.
> 
> However, llvm-top couldn't know about the "dist" *) directory, so 
> that is ok.
> 
> 
> *) I'm using a "dist" directory for PREFIX and not the 
> default "installed" directory, because in the "dist"-directory 
> case I can enter this dir via tab-completion in one go. In 
> the "installed"-directory case, the tab stops prematurely 
> because of the "install" script and I need to type 2 more 
> characters to achive the same effect :-)

Hmm. I'll consider changing the default. Thanks for the idea.

Reid.

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