ghc-compete, a repository of fingerprints, and continuous integration
Simon Marlow
marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 12:26:06 UTC 2013
On 11/10/2013 14:15, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> The reason we switched to submodules wasn't to make bisecting easier: It
> was so that we can make temporary local changes to 3rd party libraries
> (when changes to GHC or our libraries require them), and then jump back
> to an official upstream commit without upstream needing to merge our
> changes.
Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out. So we must use submodules for
libraries with a separate upstream unless we can find another solution
to this problem.
Cheers,
Simon
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