[LLVMdev] Howdy + GIT

Mehdi Amini mehdi.amini at apple.com
Thu Jan 15 11:09:00 PST 2015


> On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 01:13:52PM -0500, Reid Spencer wrote:
>> Convert to GIT
> 
> You can use the git mirrors if you want. Please check the mailing list
> for the reasons against it.

Reasons from 4 years ago don’t necessary still hold.

For those interested:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-July/041671.html
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-August/042537.html
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-September/042887.html


My take from this thread is that the main issue raised is the lack of monothonic increasing revision number. 


Mehdi





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