From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 50661 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2019 12:06:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 50653 invoked by uid 89); 27 Dec 2019 12:06:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=stability, him X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:06:40 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikoO5-0003eO-La for gcc@gcc.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:06:38 -0500 Received: from linux-libre.fsfla.org ([209.51.188.54]:50332 helo=free.home) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikoNh-0002vI-56; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:06:13 -0500 Received: from livre.home (livre.home [172.31.160.2]) by free.home (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id xBRC5xph501549 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:06:00 -0300 From: Alexandre Oliva To: Joseph Myers Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Jeff Law , Segher Boessenkool , Mark Wielaard , Maxim Kuvyrkov , "Richard Earnshaw \(lists\)" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Proposal for the transition timetable for the move to GIT References: <20191216133632.GC3152@gate.crashing.org> <20191216135451.GA3142@thyrsus.com> <20191216140514.GD3152@gate.crashing.org> <20191216153649.GE3152@gate.crashing.org> <20191225120747.GA96669@thyrsus.com> <20191226191607.GA8608@thyrsus.com> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:06:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Joseph Myers's message of "Thu, 26 Dec 2019 20:28:32 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.51.188.54 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00444.txt.bz2 On Dec 26, 2019, Joseph Myers wrote: > We should ensure we don't have missing branches in the first place (for > whatever definition of what branches we should have). *nod* > Adding a branch after the fact is a fundamentally different kind of > operation That depends on the used tool. A reproducible one, or at least one that aimed at stability across multiple conversions, could make this easier, but I guess reposurgeon is not such a tool. Which suggests to me we have to be even more reassured of the correctness of its moving-target output before we adopt it, unlike other conversion tools that have long had a certain stability of output built into their design. I understand you're on it, and I thank you for undertaking much of that validation and verification work. Your well-known attention to detail is very valuable. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Free Software Evangelist Stallman was right, but he's left :( GNU Toolchain Engineer FSMatrix: It was he who freed the first of us FSF & FSFLA board member The Savior shall return (true);