Repository Reorganization Question

[Austin Seipp]

Hi all,

It seems that while most people are in favor of migrating and
preserving the history there are a few sticky bits concerning some of
the minor details. So I think the discussion should continue, but we
clearly shouldn't pull the trigger quite yet. testsuite etc will live
on for a while longer.

In the mean time, maintaining a branch is relatively minimal cost, so
whatever solution we come up with won't hurt too badly in the mean
time.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 09:28, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Montag, den 09.12.2013, 09:23 +0000 schrieb Simon Marlow:
>>>
>>> I'm confused.  We definitely do have clickable commit links, inserted
>>> automatically by the post-commit hook, e.g.:
>>>
>>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8577#comment:21
>>>
>>> Those links would break if the hashes change, right?
>>
>>
>> but, as Herbert pointed out, these links point to the testsuite
>> repository explicitly (deadbeef/testsuite). If there did not do that,
>> they would be dead already (e.g. if someone would write them manually
>> and not paying attention to that).
>>
>> And since they are qualified by the repository they point to, they will
>> continue to point to the (then uncontinued, but unmodified) testsuite
>> repository. Which is – I believe – sufficient to make sense out of old
>> tickets.
>>
>> The links to the ghc repository are of course unchanged, there is no
>> plan to rewrite history here.
>
>
> Ah yes, I see.  That's fine then.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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