[LLVMdev] Request: Changing commit message in llvm trunk

[Andy Somogyi]

Just a thought, and I'm sure this has been discussed before, but what about hosting on github?

GitHub provides an excellent svn bridge for people who still want to use svn.

We host a number of projects on github where we have a few devs who are more comfortable using an svn client and it seems to work very well.

> On Jul 29, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Martell Malone <martellmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the feedback guys
>> 
>> So rather than speculating about what could and might not break.
>> 
>> I am going to test all these different scenarios by creating my own svn server, svn mirror and git mirror etc
>> I'll get back to you all with details on what breaks and what doesn't soon with changing the commit msgs
>> 
>> Many Thanks
>> Martell
> 
> Even if you do discover some way to make git-svn mirrors support updates to past commit messages, I'm not sure we'd want to use it. I think most people would rather keep the history simple.
> 
> People make bad commits to LLVM all the time, and there's nothing wrong with that. The normal way we deal with it is to revert the change and commit it again with a fix. Bad commit messages aren't really that different from bad code, and they can be fixed the same way. :)
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