[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] [lldb-dev] GitHub anyone?

Chris Lattner via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jun 7 12:32:23 PDT 2016


On Jun 6, 2016, at 10:07 AM, James Y Knight via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> +1 to that. I would strongly suggest that we continue to commit to master first, like we've always done in llvm.
> 
More generally, I suggest that we keep a discussion about moving hosting and svn->git to *just* those topics.  Any changes of workflow should be deferred until after and if these changes happen.

-Chris


> 
> On Jun 6, 2016 11:44 AM, "Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-dev" <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:32:45AM -0500, via llvm-dev wrote:
> > My only hesitation with this is that this requires use of cherry-pick,
> > which is not idea.  The way most git repositories work is to put
> > everything that should go into a release branch in the release branch
> > *first* and then merge the release branch to master, ensuring that
> > everything going out in a release will make it into the next release.
> > This is how the gitflow workflow works, for example.
> 
> The model of "commit to oldest first" is IMO one of the most stupid
> concepts I have ever seen in git "workflows". It is contrary to the way
> software development works and essentially just a bad workaround for
> broken cherry picks. I've seen more than one project starting to use
> this model due to advocacy after deciding to use git, stumble around
> with it for a release or two and then going back to a normal release
> management approach. Even the argument you have presented here does not
> make sense to me. Just because a change has been committed to a release
> branch, doesn't mean it won't get replaced later.
> 
> Joerg
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