Repository Reorganization Question

[Carter Schonwald]

i'm fine with them being merged, otoh I don't have any large in progress
patches afoot, and having testsuite and ghc repos merged will make it much
easier for some of the patches i have planned for end of december.

-Carter


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

> I have no objection to doing it now, though my opinion should count for
> little, since I know so little. The main person who is affected is Austin,
> since he has to do the merging. And I'm not sure that even 'base' is really
> controversial, is it?
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> | Austin Seipp
> | Sent: 04 December 2013 21:25
> | To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | Subject: Repository Reorganization Question
> |
> | Hi all,
> |
> | While discussing something with Herbert this week in preparation of
> | making a new stable branch, he brought a good point to my attention,
> | which is that if we go ahead and reorganize the repository situation
> | post 7.8, merging things to the stable branch from HEAD will become a
> | bit harder.
> |
> | Notably, we had planned to fold testsuite (and perhaps some other
> | repositories) into the GHC tree. Once we do this, the two branches
> | will have diverged quite a bit, so merging from HEAD to STABLE will
> | become harder* (because HEAD would have rolled in testsuite changes
> | for example, but the STABLE branch would not have this history.)
> |
> | Thinking about it, the best time to do such a move is, basically, when
> | there is no active stable branch. Unfortunately this time is right
> | now, but I'm not sure how everyone feels about this.
> |
> | So, the question is: should we go ahead and pull the trigger on some
> | of these perhaps? Herbert collected some numbers on the git
> | repositories and outlined all the basic details here:
> |
> | https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GitRepoReorganization
> |
> | The only thing I'd honestly propose right now is folding 'testsuite'
> | into the main repository, but of course we should see what people
> | think - perhaps we should keep base/etc off the table for now, since
> | they seem more controversial.
> |
> | * I'll point out they will only become *slightly* harder in most
> | cases, because I can always instead apply unified diffs, rather than
> | cherry pick or something. But it does lose the original metadata from
> | commits too. But I won't cry if people vote against this.
> |
> | --
> | Regards,
> |
> | Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> | Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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