Re: Good news, bad news on the repository conversion

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot 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>
>
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>