[llvm-dev] New LLVM git repository conversion prototype (original) (raw)

Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Dec 13 07🔞26 PST 2018


On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 15:07, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:34 PM James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com> wrote:

> We don't need it, no. But it might be useful. > > The purpose of this tag would not be for people to check out, but rather to allow "git describe" to return more interesting results when run on master. > > See David Jones' email from Nov 16.

Ah, okay. "git describe" is new to me :-) I still think v8.0.0-base is a better name though. v8.0.0-dev really sounds like something one might check out to get the latest dev version.

v8.0.0-branchpoint might be even clearer, though obviously a little longer.

Best,

Alex



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