[m-rev.] Converting to Git.

[Julien Fischer]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:07:20PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > Mercury is now converted to git and uploaded to github.
>>
>> I notice you've shifted tests directory into the main repository
>> (which is fine),
>> however we still need the benchmarks directory from the old CVS repository
>> as well.  (IMO, it may as well go in the main repository as well.)
>
> I can re-do the conversion so that we get the history of benchmarks inline
> with the main repository (the way I've done for tests).  Or I can just add
> it at this point, throwing away the benchmark's repos history.
>
> The former is more work, especially if people have already started using
> this.

I don't think the revision history for the benchmarks is terribly
important -- we
can always look in the archive of the CVS repos if we need to -- so
I'm fine with
just adding it at this point.

>> Also, the conversion process seems to have resurrected the old bcheck
>> script in the top-level of the source tree.
>
> That can probably be removed from current and future versions without fuss.
>
>> > https://github.com/organizations/Mercury-Language
>> >
>> > Peter, Julien and I are project members/owners for this on Github.  So any
>> > of us should be able to add other owners/committers.
>> >
>> > What remains to be done is to update the review process so that git is taken
>> > into account.
>>
>> We also need to update the test_mercury script so that we can build the
>> source distribution from the git repository rather than the CVS one.
>
> There appear to be a number of scripts that should be updated/deprecated.  I
> want to be able to use test_mercury or build a tarball on any system, not
> specific systems inside CSSE.  So new/revised scripts should have a lot less
> hardcoding.

You can already build a tarball on any system -- mmake tar does that.
And indeed test_mercury should already work on non-CSSE systems as well.

Cheers,
Julien.