[llvm-dev] GitHub anyone?

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On May 31, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On 31 May 2016 at 21:28, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
>> Ideally, I'd prefer the cross-repository to be handled with an extra layer, in a way similar as described in: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-submodules.htm (somehow conceptually similar to Android manifests XML files).
>> It would be easy to have tooling/scripts for llvm that would easily say "checkout llvm+clang+compiler-rt+libcxx+clang-extra here", or "update all llvm subproject under this root", or "checkout this specific revision for all these" (with a monotonic number for the revision).
> 
> At Linaro, we already have a set of scripts that do that. We're now
> moving to git worktree, and I think it's going to simplify our work
> considerably. But honestly, I'd rather not force anyone to use any set
> of scripts, and let people work directly with git, so I'd be more in
> favour of having a server-side solution, if at all possible.

Apparently I wasn't very clear: llvm and clang (and the others projects) would be simple decoupled, individual git repositories. You would be able to check them out however you want and commit to them individually.
There would be an extra "integration repository" on top that would only provide the service that tells "r12345 is llvm:36c941c clang:eaf492b compiler-rt:6d77ea5". This repository should be managed transparently by some server-side integration.
The provided scripting I was referring to would just be a convenience that is using this extra layer of metadata ("integration repository") to be able checkout the other individual repositories together at the right "rev-lock" revision.
This is not on your way if you don't want to use it, but it provides this "single increase monotonic revision number across multiple repository" that is convenient for some people.

Makes sense?

-- 
Medhi