Re: Forgotten MFC

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 11:14 PM Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:16:00 -0600
> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>
> > We really need to go to a system where we can add Notes to commits after
> > the fact (like we did with svn numbers in the conversion) so that we can
> tag
> > commits after the fact for merging (I forgot, or don't think it's
> > important enough
> > at the time, only to change my mind later) as well as say 'nope, this
> > has a problem
> > don't commit it' as well as gathering groups together to merge as a
> > unit incrementally
> > (again, for those that the committer might not have tagged it as
> > x-mfc-with because
> > the dependency was unknown at commit time).  The notes are optional, and
> one
> > can clone them or not, unless one wants the functionality, so it
> > doesn't affect the
> > instructions that we send out. And adding notes doesn't change the hash,
> > though notes aren't versioned very well (but well enough to reconstruct
> > accidental or malicious
>
> If the migration was to Fossil instead of stupid Git, we'd already had such
> notes for free (and amending without hash rewrites, it's just another
> control
> artifact in Fossil).
>

Notes are already a part of git. Fossil doesn't have the extra layer we
need anyway.

But we were never going to pick fossil. It was too obsure. It doesn't have
enough extra services built around it. And arm chair quarterbacking isn't
helpful. Wasting time on this doesn't move the ball forward.

What i need is more people to show up and help me when i try the next push
to relaunch our tooling push....

Warner

Warner

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