Folding ghc/testsuite repos *now*, 2nd attempt (was: Repository Reorganization Question)

[Austin Seipp]

+1 from me as well.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> It seems to me, there were no major obstacles left unaddressed in the
> previous discussion[1] (see summary below) to merging testsuite.git into
> ghc.git.
>
> So here's one last attempt to get testsuite.git folded into ghc.git before
> Austin branches off 7.8
>
> Please speak up *now*, if you have any objections to folding
> testsuite.git into ghc.git *soon* (with *soon* meaning upcoming Sunday,
> 12th Jan 2014)
>
> ----
>
> A summary of the previous thread so far:
>
>  - Let's fold testsuite into ghc before branching off 7.8RC
>    - ghc/testsuite have the most coupled commits
>    - make's it a bit easier to cherry pick ghc/testsuite between branches
>    - while being low-risk, will provide empiric value for deciding how
>      to proceed with folding in other Git repos
>
>  - Proof of concept in
>    http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/wip/T8545
>
>  - general support for it; consensus that it will be beneficial and
>    shouldn't be a huge disruption
>
>  - sync-all is adapted to abort operation if `testsuite/.git` is
>    detected, and advising the user to remove (or move-out-of-the-way)
>
>  - Concern about broken commit-refs in Trac and other places:
>
>     - old testsuite.git repo will remain available (more or less)
>       read-only; so old commit-shas will still be resolvable
>
>     - (old) Trac commit-links which work currently will continue to
>       work, as they refer specifically to the testsuite.git repo, and
>       Trac will know they point to the old testsuite.git
>
>     - If one doesn't know which Git repo a commit-id is in, there's
>       still the SHA1 look-up service at http://git.haskell.org/ which
>       will search all repos hosted at git.haskell.org for a commit
>       SHA1 prefix. Or alternatively, just ask google about the SHA1.
>
>  - Binary blobs (a few compiled executables) that were committed by
>    accident and removed right away again are removed from history to
>    avoid carrying around useless garbage in the Git history (saves
>    ~20MiB)
>
>  - Path names are rewritten to be based in testsuite/, in order to
>    make it easier for Git operations (git log et al.) to follow
>    history for folders/filenames
>
>  - Old Commit-ids will *not* be written into the rewritten commits'
>    messages in order not to add noise (old commit ids can be resolved
>    via the remaining old testsuite.git repo)
>
>
>
>  [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ghc.devel/3099
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Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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