[LLVMdev] svn mirror git?

dag at cray.com dag at cray.com
Thu Nov 15 15:53:47 PST 2012


Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> writes:

>> For example, say github's llvm-mirror was a contributor's fork.  The review
>> process might look like this:
>>
>> Contributor:
>>      Please review my patch:
>> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/commit/4823be3be1d87632fbd51ce8e51a58ee5e44b115
>>
>> Maintainer:
>>     Adds inline comments with online tool.  Then when patch is looking good:
>>     $ git fetch https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm.git
>>     $ git cherry-pick 4823be3be1d87632fbd51ce8e51a58ee5e44b115
>>     $ git push
>
> Most development is not "some contributor's fork".

Well, in the git model every developer has a fork.

> What you suggest works great for the occasional drive-by
> contributors, but most development is not from drive-by's.

Not sure what you mean by "drive-by" but in git this is really
irrelevant, I think.

                             -David



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