[llvm-foundation] Voting

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-foundation]

> On Jul 17, 2016, at 7:50 AM, Robinson, Paul <paul.robinson at sony.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: llvm-foundation [mailto:llvm-foundation-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On
>> Behalf Of Mehdi Amini via llvm-foundation
>> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 2:21 PM
>> To: Tanya Lattner
>> Cc: llvm-foundation at lists.llvm.org
>> Subject: Re: [llvm-foundation] Voting
>>>> Please, expand on your usage, as accurate as you can, with links:
>>>> <text field>
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>>>> How would moving to GitHub impact your usage of LLVM? (choose the
>>>> closest option)
>>>> 1. I already use Git, little to no impact foreseen.
>>>> 2. I use a mixture of Git and Svn, and some impact will be felt.
>>>> 3. I use mostly Svn, so we'll have big impact on our productivity.
>>>> 4. I cannot work with / don't want to move to Git.
>>>> 
>>>> If you chose 2~4, please explain your reasons here:
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>> I feel there is a missing option: "SVN is annoying and getting rid of it
>> would straighten my processes".
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>> Also I'm not sure what you expect to take from "3": someone who don't know
>> git will necessarily have a period of of lower productivity but it has to
>> be a transition cost.
>> (And you phrased it as "big impact" which seems dubious)
> 
> When we moved from SVN to git internally, it was indeed a big impact.

I’m not saying it *can’t be*, but if all choices you have are the 4 one above, where do you put the individual developer that commits to LLVM once a week but barely knows git? “Big impact” in this context is not the same as for someone who has infrastructure built around SVN (like you, or like LNT).


— 
Mehdi


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> Lots of bits of our process were premised on a strictly increasing 
> integer across branches (aka SVN revision number).  It took a while to
> adapt them all.  We paid that cost to get better merge behavior with 
> git, and planned it out on a schedule of our choosing.  Having it 
> imposed by upstream would have been far more disruptive.
> --paulr
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>> Mehdi
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