[Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Sun May 19 19:46:00 GMT 2019


On Mai 19 2019, Marek Polacek <polacek@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 03:11:08AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
>> > Do we really need a commit integer numbers after the transition? I know 
>> > we're used to it.
>> > But git commit hash provides that same.
>> 
>> Revision numbers are nice short text strings, and from a revision number
>> you can see approximately when it happened, and from two revision numbers
>> on the same branch you can trivially tell which one is older.  Those are
>> nice features.  But we can live without it, IMO.
>
> Since I do many bisections a day, losing this capability would be Very Bad.
> Without it, there's no range, and without a range, there's nothing to _bisect_.

What's wrong with git bisect?  It does everything you need.

Andreas.

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