Submit repo status (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 08:49:40 UTC 2018

The problem you'll run into when you create new clones from time to time is that a single push from somebody who didn't realize that you have created a new clone (and didn't recreate its local version of submit) can unintentionally push ALL the old branches from his local clone when he only wants to push his single, new branch. I actually wonder that this hasn't happened already ...

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:17 PM Stanislav Smirnov <stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com> wrote:

Thank you for your suggestions! Talking about the branches, as always we ask users to be respectful and try not to forget to close them after they are no longer needed. From our side we will consider different options to make sure the repo is in a good shape. Best regards, Stanislav Smirnov On Dec 6, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Roman Kennke <roman at kennke.org> wrote: The submit repo was not working as expected last couple of days. The main reason is that the "hg pull" operation was not able to complete succesfully because of the number of heads in the repository. The submit repo hasn't been "cleaned" since it opened a year ago. There are currently 406 (closed + normal) branches in the repo and most of them are “dead” (not active, but have not been closed). It was decided to start "resetting" the jdk/submit repository regularly.

Another possibility would be to automatically close branches which match a JBS ID once the corresponding change has been pushed to jdk/jdk (the same way JBS issues get "Resloved" automatically once the corresponding change gets pushed). Yeah, that would seem most useful. I tried hard to exercise hygiene on this, but it's easy to forget. A cron-job (or so) that queries all heads and checks JBS ID, and closes branches for closed issues seems most useful. Is that what is meant by resetting? I just hope it doesn't mean we have to clone a fresh new jdk/submit every week/month or so.. Roman

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