upstream repos and wiki's "Workflow with validate"

[Nicolas Frisby]

Hi all. I'm prepping for my first GHC commit, so I'm paying attention to
all the details.

I'm following the workflow described here


http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git#Workflowwithvalidate

And I have a couple questions. Ultimately, I'm wondering if I'm doing
something wrong or if those commands on that wiki page are either
out-of-date or don't list some prerequisites.

Question #1

When I run

  ./sync-all new

The output shows lots of commits from the upstream repositories.

  * Is there a sync-all switch to avoid that somehow?

  * Is ./sync-all push going to push those? That'd be bad.

Question #2

I omit dph from my working tree. Consequently, I think, sync-all in the
validate tree chokes on some of the commands from that's wiki page's
workflow (eg ./sync-all new). This choking prevents it from executing the
command on the repos that come after dph in the list (ie the top-level GHC
repo). Adding --no-dph doesn't seem to help here.

Are there any known pitfalls here that I may have tripped into? Or perhaps
some flags I could add to my command lines?

Else, it seems that adding dph to my working repo is necessary for
validation with this suggested workflow.

Thank you for your time.
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