[llvm-dev] Allowing PRs on GitHub for some subprojects

[Louis Dionne via llvm-dev]

> On Mar 3, 2020, at 17:16, Shoaib Meenai <smeenai at fb.com> wrote:
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> `arc patch` should preserve the author information in the original commit, if there was any. At least it has in my experience.

Yes, but I think people can upload raw patches to Phabricator without using `arc diff`. I know I ran into one of these just last week where I used Johannes' script (thanks!) and ended up still having to find the committer's email by other means.

Louis

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> On 3/3/20, 1:44 PM, "llvm-dev on behalf of Louis Dionne via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org on behalf of llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 20, 2020, at 14:25, Johannes Doerfert <johannesdoerfert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 02/20, Louis Dionne via llvm-dev wrote:
>>> I know there has been significant discussion about "moving" from
>>> Phabricator to GitHub reviews and pull requests, etc. I'm not
>>> suggesting that we do anything in terms of global LLVM policy.
>>> However, as a maintainer of libc++, I commit __a lot__ of other
>>> people's code for them. It would be a huge time saver for me if I
>>> could nicely suggest to contributors (not force them) to use PRs
>>> instead of Phabricator for their contributions. It would also handle
>>> commit attribution properly, which is a pain right now.
>> 
>> Don't take this as me telling you it is "actually simple". I am
>> interested what about the contribution is problematic? If the libc++
>> system doesn't have more requirements than the rest of LLVM there might
>> be ways to make it less painful. FWIW, here is what I do, and I know not
>> everyone wants to use `arc`. Ina script this could potentially reduce
>> the pain. Again, this is not meant to tell you it is simple or your
>> problems are not real.
>> 
>> arc patch DXXXX
>> git pull --rebase origin master
>> arc amend
>> arcfilter        // see below
>> git llvm push master
>> 
>> 
>> arcfilter () { git log -1 --pretty=%B | awk '/Reviewers:|Subscribers:/{p=1} /Reviewed By:|Differential Revision:/{p=0} !p && !/^Summary:/' | git commit --amend -F - }
> 
>    Thanks, this indeed solves some of my problems, however not entirely. When people submit contributions without an email address, I still have to do some digging to find out how to attribute the change. This shouldn't be something I even have to think about.
> 
>    Louis
> 
>> 
>>> Would it be possible to allow GitHub PRs to be submitted on the
>>> monorepo so as to let individual sub-projects deal with it however
>>> they please? I've spoken to numerous people involved in libc++
>>> development and they would like to start submitting PRs (and for the
>>> others, we'll still accept Phabricator reviews). Perhaps it is
>>> possible to setup some kind of filter such that PRs touching only
>>> libcxx/ and libcxxabi/ can be submitted, but otherwise they're closed
>>> by the bot?
>> 
>> TBH, I feel this is yet another way of splitting the community and in
>> the end complicating things even more. I mean, since recently if you
>> want to ask a question there were the *-dev lists and the IRC. Now we
>> have discourse, discord on top of that with some people monitoring only
>> one of these and others required to monitor both. Duplicating the way we
>> do reviews is similarly going to require people that want to be informed
>> to duplicate their lookups.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Johannes
>> 
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