[llvm-dev] RFC: Dealing with out of tree changes and the LLVM git monorepo

[David Greene via llvm-dev]

Seconded.

                               -David

James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com> writes:

> I don't feel like I can unilaterally declare this topic closed, since
> there was an objection to that last time.
>
> But with no additional feedback after another week, I'd still really
> like to close this out, and start moving forward with the original
> plan, again...
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:28 PM James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>     
>     It's been a week and a half more (much of which was holiday the
>     US, granted). If there's no more arguments in favor of going with
>     a zipper repo, I'd really like to wrap this thread up.
>     
>     
>
>     
>     
>     On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 1:32 AM Justin Bogner
>     <mail at justinbogner.com> wrote:
>     
>     
>         
>         
>         Yes, I’m still trying to evaluate the migration script’s
>         downsides as compared to the zipper approach’s downsides.
>         Sorry that I got a little held up, but I have to balance
>         evaluating this with getting other work done. 
>         
>         
>         I should have some feedback to a few of the responses on this
>         thread next week. I really don’t think I can respond in a
>         useful/productive way before I’ve finished these experiments.
>         
>         On Nov 15, 2018, at 16:07, Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev
>         <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>         
>         
>         
>             
>             I think Justin was still experimenting a bit w/ the
>             migration script. I'd like to at least let him get back to
>             this with the results of that?
>
>             
>             
>             On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:55 PM James Y Knight via
>             llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>             
>             
>                 
>                 Based on the feedback so far, I propose that we call
>                 this discussion done -- we will not go with this
>                 zippered proposal, but will proceed with
>                 https://github.com/llvm-git-prototype/llvm/.
>
>                 
>                 
>                 On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:06 PM David Greene via
>                 llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>                 
>                 Tom Stellard via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
>                     writes:
>                     
>                     > What is the status with this proposal? It has
>                     been 2 weeks now since
>                     > the initial email and it seems like the
>                     discussion is slowing down. Do
>                     > we still want to consider this zippered approach
>                     as a possibility for the
>                     > official repo? 
>                     
>                     I have very strong feedback from the engineer who
>                     does our upstream
>                     merges that he does NOT want to see this zippered
>                     repository. A clean
>                     linear history makes understanding merges much
>                     easier.
>                     
>                     James made a number of other important points
>                     about limitations of the
>                     zippered repository:
>                     
>                     http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-November/127460.
>                     html
>                     
>                     git-bisect being more complicated is a
>                     deal-breaker for me. Checking
>                     out a random commit and only getting part of the
>                     project is just odd.
>                     
>                     -David
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