[llvm-dev] [RFC] One or many git repositories?

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Sanjoy Das via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW, like David Chisnall, we (Azul) have a problem with rewriting
>> history.  
>> Our LLVM fork has O(100) changes diverging from upstream
>> (though our branching structure is simple), and keeping all of that
>> history is important.
> 
> Nobody downstream has to adopt the new structure, I believe it is possible to extract only the “llvm” commits from the new repo and rebase them on top of the existing llvm repo.
> This can be done on the fly by you CI, but it is also a deterministic process, i.e. you can restart from scratch anytime (assuming you have the original llvm.git repo and the new one).
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>> 
>> What do people think of having one (or a set of) merge commit(s)
>> merging in the non-llvm projects that will be part of the new
>> monorepo?  That's the only technique I can think of that will preserve
>> history for downstream users by construction.
> 
> I have no idea what you mean here?

I think I understand what you mean:

1) checkout the existing clang repo
2) move everything in a subdirectory “clang”
3) commit the move
4) merge this into the new “llvm-project”.
5) repeat for every single project

That should preserve the hashes and avoid user to have to “extract” the subproject to merge into their own branch.
Annoyingly, it breaks git log path/to/file though.

— 
Mehdi




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>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Roelofs via llvm-dev
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>> On 7/21/16 11:03 AM, C Bergström via llvm-dev wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Monolithic is trying to solve the wrong problem - it's that simple.
>>>> Any discussion or attempt to coddle those who think it's necessary is
>>>> a waste of time. #dictator
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>>> 
>>> Christopher,
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>>> AFAICT, you haven't explained *why* it is the wrong problem. Mind
>>> elaborating on that?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> p.s: edicts, appeals to authority, and ad hominems are not useful for
>>> discussion. Doing that, and following up with "#dictator" further solidifies
>>> that you know your own argument is b-s.... please stop.
>>> 
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