From: Erich Keane Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:59:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Remove misleading line about git's lack of revision numbers. X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=529ab41f202055dcbf978b3235f5841a13ad76b2;p=llvm Remove misleading line about git's lack of revision numbers. Change-Id: I8a22cb4b4bef9bceee1f43381435d664c2cfd770 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@351357 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.rst b/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.rst index f12077504db..5b68bac7056 100644 --- a/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.rst +++ b/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.rst @@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ A single revision number (e.g. r123456) thus identifies a consistent version of all LLVM sub-projects. Git does not use sequential integer revision number but instead uses a hash to -identify each commit. (Linus mentioned that the lack of such revision number -is "the only real design mistake" in Git [TorvaldRevNum]_.) +identify each commit. The loss of a sequential integer revision number has been a sticking point in past discussions about Git: @@ -860,7 +859,6 @@ References .. [LattnerRevNum] Chris Lattner, http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-July/041739.html .. [TrickRevNum] Andrew Trick, http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-July/041721.html .. [JSonnRevNum] Joerg Sonnenberg, http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2011-July/041688.html -.. [TorvaldRevNum] Linus Torvald, http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Git-commit-generation-numbers-td6584414.html .. [MatthewsRevNum] Chris Matthews, http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2016-July/049886.html .. [submodules] Git submodules, https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules) .. [statuschecks] GitHub status-checks, https://help.github.com/articles/about-required-status-checks/