[LLVMdev] svn mirror git?

[Greg Fitzgerald]

>> clock skew (which is easy to get in a VM) can confuse Ninja in a way
>> that doesn't give helpful errors.
>
>This is a significant issue.  I would not want to transition to
>cmake+ninja before this is fixed.

Do you mean in the same way that clock skew would affect Make?  Or just
that Ninja doesn't provide that nice "clock skew detected" message that
Make does?  Or are you looking for a build system that uses file hashes
instead of last-modified times?


> I think svn works better than git as an authoritative upstream

Would you mind expanding on this?  What problem specifically is being
solved?  Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is
whatever URL the BDFL says it is.

Thanks,
Greg



On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:38 AM, <dag at cray.com> wrote:

> David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > clock skew (which is easy to get in a VM) can confuse Ninja in a way
> > that doesn't give helpful errors.
>
> This is a significant issue.  I would not want to transition to
> cmake+ninja before this is fixed.
>
>                              -David
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