[cfe-dev] Maintaining a clang fork

[Sean Silva via cfe-dev]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:21 PM, David Chisnall via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> You’ve had lots of other replies, but no one has yet mentioned
> git-imerge.  It burns a *lot* of cycles, but I’ve found that it’s the best
> way of handling the merges.  It identifies the pair of revisions (yours and
> upstream) that cause a conflict and lets you fix them one at a time.
>
> Unfortunately, the clang and llvm git repos are separate in the git
> export, so you can’t easily run the clang test suite during the merge (you
> can run LLVM tests though, and if you merge LLVM first then you can find
> the revision that corresponds to your head merged with a specific clang svn
> revision and try running that).
>

What I have found works really well is to use a combined repo like this
one: https://github.com/llvm-project/llvm-project

-- Sean Silva


>
> Our fork has some fairly invasive changes from upstream (support for
> pointers that are not integers all the way from clang to the back end), so
> merges are quite painful and I wait longer between them than I should.
>
> David
>
> > On 10 Mar 2016, at 16:41, 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 ?
> >
> > Ciao
> >   Nat!
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