[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Reminder: LLVM 2.9 Branching in One Week

[Owen Anderson]

On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:01 AM, David A. Greene wrote:

> Chad Colgur <colgur at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Will the 2.9 branch be reflected in the git mirrors?
> 
> I really, really hope this is the case.  The official git mirror
> documentation says it is only trunk because the current branching scheme
> in not suitable for git.  I don't understand why that would be but I'm
> not a git-svn expert.

It doesn't work because git-svn assumes that all of your branches begin at the same position in the SVN tree, i.e. llvm/branches/*.  The problem is that we have some branches in llvm/branches/*, some in llvm/branches/Apple/*, some in llvm/branches/ggrief/*, etc.  The end result is that git-svn gets horribly confused.

--Owen