[LLVMdev] git Status

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:57 AM, FlyLanguage wrote:

>> On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:57 AM, David Greene wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did the project ever come to a decision about making a transition to
>>> git?  I'm trying to do some longer-term planning and it would be helpful
>>> to know what the roadmap is.
> 
> It's stuck on:
> 
> 1) A misunderstanding that global revision numbers are necessary and 
> that 'git describe' along with frequent tagging (commit hooks) isn't 
> good enough.
> 
> 2) Nobody writing up how git should be used with the current llvm 
> workflow (which is not going to adapt to an SCM, but the other way 
> around, which is understandable.)

>From chats with some llvm/clang developers at Apple, we're also stuck on:

3) Somebody doing all of the thankless infrastructure work to ensure that we don't regress on basic things like the web interface, post-commit email hooks, etc.

4) Having a few stakeholders audit the conversion process to ensure that "we do it right".

5) There are organizations that use the current git-svn bridge extensively to maintain long term topic branches before proposing/integrating them into the public repository. If the conversion changes the SHA1 of commits (and it likely will due to goal #4), then these organizations will need time to prepare for the conversion (to avoid unscheduled downtime and/or any loss of history).

davez