[flang-dev] Rewriting f18's history for inclusion in llvm monorepo

[Finkel, Hal J. via flang-dev]

Peter, thanks for working on this!

Steve, Eric, thoughts? How does this compare to what you've been working on?

  -Hal

On 12/5/19 7:27 AM, Peter Waller via flang-dev wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Following on from previous conversations about integrating f18 with the
> llvm monorepo, we wanted to preserve as much history as we can, but also
> to have a history without merge commits.
>
> I've just submitted a pull request containing a "flatten.sh" which tries
> to do this. Further information is in the pull request. To help with
> review I've pushed the rewritten history up as well.
>
> Pull request: https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18/pull/854
> Example rewritten history: https://github.com/peterwaller-arm/f18/tree/new
>
> It's not perfect yet, in particular for merge commits:
>
> * The commit messages aren't great (yet).
> * We could talk about exactly what metadata we want to preserve for merges.
>
> For now I've assumed that the second-parent of the merge commit contains
> the relevant authorship information for the patch, so the GIT_AUTHOR_*
> is taken from this, which is the last commit before a pull request is
> merged.
>
> Once we're happy with this in flang-dev, we can present this to llvm-dev
> and adapt the script for submission.
>
> Your input is welcomed.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Peter
>
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Hal Finkel
Lead, Compiler Technology and Programming Languages
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory