[llvm-dev] New LLVM git repository conversion prototype

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via llvm-dev]

> On Dec 13, 2018, at 06:30, James Y Knight via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:06 AM Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com <mailto:mail at justinbogner.com>> wrote:
> James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com <mailto:jyknight at google.com>> writes:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:40 PM Jeremy Lakeman <Jeremy.Lakeman at gmail.com <mailto:Jeremy.Lakeman at gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Semantic versioning would recommend "v8.0.0-dev", "v8.0.0-rc1" etc. The
> >> hyphen indicating that this is a pre-release version coming before "v8.0.0"
> >
> >
> > Here's my proposal:
> > - Release branches will be named: release/3.5.x (for old version numbering
> > scheme), release/7.x (for new).

I suggest, instead of "release/7.x", that we use "release/7.0.x".  This aligns with how we only rev the 3rd part of the tuple when tagging from this branch.

In the unexpected case that we have a bugfix that requires an ABI break after 7.0.0, we can create "release/7.1.x" for managing those tags.

> > - The tags for release branches will be named v8.0.0 (for final), and
> > v8.0.0-rc1 for release candidates.
> > - Tags on the master branch (which will be created at commits modifying the
> > version file after branch creation, ala r338537) will be named v8.0.0-dev.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:10 PM Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com <mailto:mail at justinbogner.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> As a bit of a side note, v8.0.0 is probably too brief - I expect v*
> >> could easily match some arbitrary tag that starts with the letter v too
> >> easily. I don't have strong opinions about the particular name, but
> >> something like llvm-8.0.0 or llvm.org-v8.0.0 would be better.
> >>
> >
> > I don't feel terribly strongly about whether to use "llvm-8.0.0" or
> > "v8.0.0".
> >
> > The "v8.0.0" style seems to be very widely used, so that'd still be my
> > inclination, barring a good reason why we shouldn't. The other scheme I've
> > seen commonly is actually just the raw version, e.g. "8.0.0" without any
> > prefix at all.
> 
> 
> 2. There are *a lot* of downstream projects based on llvm, and they're
>    all likely to adopt the monorepo and add their own stuff to it.
>    Namespacing the official tags gives them an obvious model for how to
>    do their own tags and makes it easy to tell what a tag means at a
>    glance
> 
> Hm, that's a very good point. My preference would be "llvm-8.0.0" now.
>  
> Branches are namespaced to their origin repository by default, so renaming some in a downstream fork is no issue.
> 
> But tags are, by default, global. So if you did rename tags in a fork, and someone pulled from both repositories, they get the union of all the tags without being able to tell the source, or potentially even conflicts between them. Giving the official release tags a name prefix seems better.

I have a mild preference for "llvm.org-8.0.0" (instead of "llvm-8.0.0"), since llvm.org is unambiguously a point of origin, whereas "llvm" could just refer to the content.  E.g., some downstreams might package their product with the name "llvm".

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