[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Git Move: GitHub+modules proposal

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 30 June 2016 at 16:23, Frédéric Riss <friss at apple.com> wrote:
>> The only thing we *have* to have a sequential number for, are
>> releases. Even that can be ran manually.
>
> LNT and ‘llvmlab bisect’ also currently rely heavily on having sequential numbers as commit identifiers.

One of the steps of the migration is to re-write the infrastructure to
use Git's history instead of sequential numbers.

LLVM Lab bisect is probably easier than LNT, but as I said, this is
*only* a problem when the service goes down, which shouldn't be common
at all.

cheers,
--renato