[m-rev.] Upgrading Boehm GC, the git way.

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Mon Oct 20 17:28:39 AEDT 2014


Hi,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:29:48 +1100, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's a bit annoying that git log or gitk without any other arguments
> > will show commits that I'm not really interested in.  From that POV,
> > I'd rather see all of Boehm GC's commits squashed together.  Perhaps
> > there is some way to mitigate that problem?
>
> Also, I think we should avoid mixing bdwgc's tags with our own.
> We have a couple of historical tags with almost the same naming
> convention (gc_X_Y vs gcX_Y), though perhaps we could just delete them.
>

I've haven't had a chance to look through all this properly, but you
can certainly get rid of the gc* tags, and probably most of the other
historical ones as well.

Cheers,
Julien.
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