[llvm-dev] Why is there a llvm/apple-llvm-project-staging ?

[Tom Stellard via llvm-dev]

On 7/6/20 8:40 PM, David Blaikie via llvm-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:29 PM Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yep. That thread. It got there eventually around this branch as well. It's a... long thread at this point.
> 
> *nod* I think I've read it all - and don't see mention of this
> subproject/fork/thingy. (& that entire thread occurred after (June
> 29th) this email from Roman (June 21st) - and was seeking permission,
> not asking about a pre-existing fork)). Chris proposed a possible fork
> name ("I don’t have a opinion on this either way, but can git/GitHub
> maintain forks within the same organization?  You could have
> llvm/llvm-project and llvm/llvm-project-apple-staging or something
> like that?") but it's not the one that's already there/Roman's asking
> about (almost the same, though): apple-llvm-project-staging.
> 
> So I'm still confused, at least.
> 
> Perhaps someone accidentally pushed this branch while trying to
> prototype ideas before sending the proposal?
> 

This was a repo I created as a landing spot for the Apple patches
that were discussed in the recent mailing list thread.  We eventually
decided this was the wrong approach and that the issue should be brought
before the community for discussion.  The repo is gone now, sorry for 
the confusion.

- Tom


> - Dave
> 
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:27 PM David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:21 PM Eric Christopher via llvm-dev
>>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's an email thread at this point :)
>>>
>>> You mean http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/142951.html
>>> ? I wasn't sure that was directly related - since that thread seems to
>>> be asking for permission/buy-in to /add/ a branch, it doesn't (based
>>> on my reading at least) talk about any pre-existing branch, which is
>>> what Roman seems to be asking about?
>>>
>>> So I'm not sure if they're related or not.
>>>
>>> - Dave
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -eric
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:01 AM Roman Lebedev via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some time ago, https://github.com/llvm/apple-llvm-project-staging appeared.
>>>>> I do not recall seeing any discussions about it (especially before the
>>>>> fact) here.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a standalone repository, not a fork, therefore github wrongfully counts
>>>>> everyones commits twice - once in the proper repo, and once in there.
>>>>> That can not be worked around, as far as i understand.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, why is it there in the first place?
>>>>> Why was there no discussion about it?
>>>>> Why is it not in https://github.com/apple ?
>>>>> Can it be moved in the right place?
>>>>>
>>>>> Roman.
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