[cfe-dev] Maintaining a clang fork

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Nat! via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am just wondering if anyone has experiences maintaining a clang fork and
> how you do it ?
>
> It wasn't very easy for me to move from 3.7 to 3.8, since there were about
> 2000 commits I had to merge. git wasn't too clever with the merge either,
> finding stuff to merge in files I had never touched. In the end I reversed
> my mode of operation, and merged into master from my branch, using -strategy
> ours to keep mainline intact and preferred to reedit many of my changes.
>
> It would appear advantageous to have some sort of continous integration,
> where each commit from mainline is automatically merged into my branch and
> then a compile is attempted. If things break, the integration stops.
> Otherwise it just keeps on churning. If this makes things really easier
> though, I don't know. Does this exist ?

Sony folks gave a talk called "Living Downstream Without Drowning"
that sounds relevant to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCi9gOVMug

 - Hans