[llvm-dev] GitHub Survey?

Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Oct 14 09:57:40 PDT 2016


> On 2016-Oct-14, at 09:39, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On 14 October 2016 at 17:28, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
>> This question is the last one that does not seem great to me. Right now it
>> reads:
>> 
>> If multi-repo is adopted, how do you plan to contribute to upstream? *
>> - Using Git submodules for everything (checkout, commit, push)
>> - Using the Git repos directly, submodules only for bisecting, etc.
>> - Using the SVN bridges.
>> - I don't contribute.
>> 
>> The first answer mention “commit” and “push”, using submodules, which isn’t
>> clear to me what it means in practice since the submodules are supposed to
>> be read-only (no-one should be able to push to the umbrella).
>> 
>> Can you clarify or reword?
> 
> Ouch, sorry. It was a bit late yesterday. :)
> 
> Changed to "use for everything but commit". I'm not sure how much
> better that is, but at least it's more accurate.
> 
> cheers,
> --renato

LGTM on my end at this point, aside from a minor edit:

> The mono-repo variant provides read/write access to sub-projects via an SVN bridge and git-SVN. Contributors will have the option to continue using repositories split on project boundaries. Assuming mono-repo gets adopted, how do you plan to contribute? *

s/git-SVN/git-svn/
(based on man page: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn)



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