From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: gcc Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 02:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADzB+2knuMR6aUSFykz9eoSV0KXNSeFLU+5PCbB4w2CmzR-rZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709002754.962F43A4AA7@snark.thyrsus.com>
Thanks for the update.
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 10:28 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> There is good news bad news on the GCC repository conversion.
>
> The good news is that I have solved the only known remaining technical
> problem in reposurgeon blocking the conversion. I've fixed the bug
> that prevented execute permissions from being carried by branch
> copies.
>
> The bad news is that my last test run overran the memnory capacity of
> the 64GB Great Beast. I shall have to find some way of reducing the
> working set, as 128GB DD4 memory is hideously expensive.
>
> The only remaining software issue is that I need to figure out what
> should be done with your mid-branch deletes. When they're followed by
> a branch copy the combination is probably best expressed as a merge
> to the target branch. I need to audit to see if there are other
> cases.
>
> Alas, this continues to be a slow and grindingly difficult job.
> --
> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and
> strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a
> woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
> -- L. Neil Smith
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-09 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-09 0:28 Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09 2:09 ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2018-07-09 7:18 ` Janus Weil
2018-07-09 10:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09 13:59 ` David Edelsohn
2018-07-09 16:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-09 16:53 ` Janus Weil
2018-07-09 16:57 ` Jeff Law
2018-07-09 18:05 ` Paul Smith
2018-07-10 8:10 ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-07-10 9:14 ` Aldy Hernandez
2018-07-11 3:31 ` Mark Atwood
2018-07-11 4:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-11 8:27 ` Alec Teal
2018-07-09 17:18 ` David Edelsohn
2018-07-09 18:16 ` David Malcolm
2018-07-09 8:40 ` Martin Liška
2018-07-09 19:51 ` Florian Weimer
2018-07-09 20:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-10 8:10 ` Alec Teal
2018-07-10 8:11 ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-07-20 21:36 ` Joseph Myers
2018-07-20 23:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
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