[llvm-dev] [RFC] changing variable naming rules

[Chris Lattner via llvm-dev]

On Sep 10, 2019, at 12:38 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>> That said, are you aware of Rui’s work on lld?  He developed a process in which people with significant out of tree patches were able to catch up, merge the mega patch and move forward without significant churn.  I agree it is non-zero, but it is very low, and the cost seems worth the price of forward progress and avoiding perpetual stagnation.
> 
> I'm not aware of exactly how that worked, but I thought Rui shared his
> tool so that downstream repos could do the same conversion that
> happened upstream, thereby "catching up". I don't know that we'd want
> to do that for a release branch though.

Makes sense, I agree.

> Maybe the solution for the release branches would be to time the
> renaming so that it doesn't interfere with releases (e.g. do the
> rename shortly before the release branch is created).

+1, that would make sense to me.  Rui, what do you think about that?

> 
> I'm not against the renaming per se, I just wanted to highlight that
> this is the largest issue I see. Much of the discussion seems to have
> focussed on the "git blame" issue, which I don't think is an issue at
> all.

Agreed. I’m pretty sure that the git blame issue is solved now, but I’m not an expert on this at all.  I can’t wait to get from svn to GitHub though! :-) :-)

-Chris