[swift-dev] [swift-lldb-dev] Changes to LLDB Branch Management

[Bob Wilson]

> On Feb 9, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Chris Bieneman via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org <mailto:swift-dev at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> Hi, Chris. I’m a bit confused by these changes. Swift’s master-next isn’t paired with upstream-with-swift; it’s paired with stable-next, which is resync’d to upstream-with-swift on a fairly regular cadence. Have you discussed this with the “merge czars” on the Swift side, who maintain master-next and stable-next?
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> This has been discussed with the “merge czars”, and we may end up creating a stable-next branch, but Bob Wilson suggested that they were considering changes to the merge process that would eliminate the need for that branch.

Yes, I sent a proposal to swift-dev about this on Dec. 7. The feedback was positive so we are moving forward with this plan. I’ll reply on that other thread with an update on the status.


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>> “upstream-with-trunk” is redundant; the “upstream” referred to in “upstream-with-swift” is LLVM trunk. “upstream-plus-swift-support” might have been a better name for the LLVM branch.
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> I mis-wrote that. It is “upstream-with-swift” not trunk. The LLDB “upstream” branch will be going away because it is unnecessary to maintain a branch that matches LLVM.org <http://llvm.org/>.
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>> What happens on the LLDB “stable" branch? No development happens on LLVM or Clang’s “stable” branch; they’re essentially just aliases for the latest release branch. Does the LLDB “stable” branch build against Swift master or Swift’s latest release branch?
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> LLDB’s stable branch will be maintained in exactly the same way LLVM & Clang’s stable branches are. So it is currently identical to the swift-4.0-branch.
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>> When I change something on Swift master that affects LLDB, where do I send a pull request going forward? It would be very painful for Swift developers to have a master-next/stable-next build set up just to submit changes to LLDB; today, most Swift developers don’t even need to think about master-next unless something breaks.
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> Patches to LLDB for swift-related functionality should go into the most current release branch, in the same way we handle LLVM & Clang changes.
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> -Chris
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>> 
>> Concerned,
>> Jordan
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>>> On Feb 9, 2017, at 10:50, Chris Bieneman via swift-lldb-dev <swift-lldb-dev at swift.org <mailto:swift-lldb-dev at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> Hello Swift-Dev and Swift-LLDB-Dev,
>>> 
>>> Over the last couple weeks we’ve been working on some changes to the branch management strategy for the Swift-LLDB repository. The goal is to have LLDB more closely align with the other projects forked from LLVM.org <http://llvm.org/>. We believe that making this change will simplify the contribution process for LLDB’s Swift support.
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>>> To this end, we are making the following changes:
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>>> LLDB has gained an upstream-with-trunk branch which will be auto-merged from LLVM.org <http://llvm.org/>’s LLDB/trunk. This branch will contain the best of both worlds. The latest and greatest from LLVM.org <http://llvm.org/>, and Swift support. This branch will pair to LLVM & Clang’s upstream-with-swift branches and Swift’s master-next.
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>>> LLDB has also gained a stable branch which will behave the same way as the LLVM & Clang stable branches, and should be used for most Swift compiler development. Additionally we have made the swift-lldb/stable branch the default branch on the GitHub repository, which matches the behavior of LLVM & Clang.
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>>> LLDB’s master and master-next branches will be going away. Later today we will lock the branches, and in a few days we’ll delete them. For most users you’ll want to migrate from Swift-LLDB/master to Swift-LLDB/stable.
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>>> The new branches are already created, and the tooling will be coming online over the next few days. Additionally, the Swift contributing page (https://swift.org/contributing/#llvm-and-swift <https://swift.org/contributing/#llvm-and-swift>) has been updated to reflect the alignment of the LLDB process with the other LLVM.org <http://llvm.org/> projects.
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>>> If you have any questions about the new process or the transition please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> -Chris
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