<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Swift-Dev and Swift-LLDB-Dev,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 <a href="http://LLVM.org" class="">LLVM.org</a>. We believe that making this change will simplify the contribution process for LLDB’s Swift support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To this end, we are making the following changes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">LLDB has gained an upstream-with-trunk branch which will be auto-merged from <a href="http://LLVM.org" class="">LLVM.org</a>’s LLDB/trunk. This branch will contain the best of both worlds. The latest and greatest from <a href="http://LLVM.org" class="">LLVM.org</a>, and Swift support. This branch will pair to LLVM & Clang’s upstream-with-swift branches and Swift’s master-next.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The new branches are already created, and the tooling will be coming online over the next few days. Additionally, the Swift contributing page (<a href="https://swift.org/contributing/#llvm-and-swift" class="">https://swift.org/contributing/#llvm-and-swift</a>) has been updated to reflect the alignment of the LLDB process with the other <a href="http://LLVM.org" class="">LLVM.org</a> projects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have any questions about the new process or the transition please let me know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>