[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] How soon after the GitHub migration should committing with git-llvm become optional?

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:26 PM Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:26 PM Hubert Tong via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:47 AM Marcus Johnson via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>> I say retire it instantly.
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>> +1. It has never been a real requirement to use the script. Using native
>> svn is still viable until the point of the migration.
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> It was a requirement for the "linear history" feature. With GitHub
> providing this now, I'm also +1 on retiring the tool unless there is a
> another use that can be articulated for it?
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I believe one thing mentioned was that if the tool was required, it could
be used to enforce a do-not-branch policy. That's the thing I've seen
discussed so far. (& questions as to whether that's worth it, whether
there's other ways to enforce it, etc)

- Dave

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> Mehdi
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>>> > On Oct 15, 2019, at 3:14 AM, Tom Stellard via cfe-dev <
>>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I mentioned this in my email last week, but I wanted to start a new
>>> > thread to get everyone's input on what to do about the git-llvm script
>>> > after the GitHub migration.
>>> >
>>> > The original plan was to require the use of the git-llvm script when
>>> > committing to GitHub even after the migration was complete.
>>> > The reason we decided to do this was so that we could prevent
>>> developers
>>> > from accidentally pushing merge commits and making the history
>>> non-linear.
>>> >
>>> > Just in the last week, the GitHub team completed the "Require Linear
>>> > History" branch protection, which means we can now enforce linear
>>> > history server side and do not need the git-llvm script to do this.
>>> >
>>> > With this new development, the question I have is when should the
>>> > git-llvm script become optional?  Should we make it optional
>>> immediately,
>>> > so that developers can push directly using vanilla git from day 1, or
>>> should we
>>> > wait a few weeks/months until things have stabilized to make it
>>> optional?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Tom
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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