[webkit-dev] WebKit Transition to Git [Identifiers and Merge Commits]

[Jonathan Bedard]

>> Monotonic Commit Identifiers
>> Of great interest to Apple?s engineers has been retaining some kind
>> of ordered tag we can use to refer to commits to make defending CI
>> and bisection easier. We?ve developed a scheme for this that assigns
>> commits an ordered identifier per-branch, outlined in?
>> https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/commit-identifiers <https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/commit-identifiers>, designed to be used
>> alongside git hashes. These identifiers can be used in our current
>> Subversion repository, and we would like to start using them before
>> the project has transitions to git.
>> 
> 
> Have you seen how this was handled in LLVM?
> https://releases.llvm.org/9.0.0/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.html#on-managing-revision-numbers-with-git <https://releases.llvm.org/9.0.0/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.html#on-managing-revision-numbers-with-git>

We looked at LLVM and Chromium specifically, our approach is pretty similar to LLVM’s, but resets the canonical identifiers when branching from the default branch.

> 
> Would you also consider preventing merge commits in order to keep a
> clean mainline branch?


Definitely going to be preventing merge commits, they end up breaking a lot, I neglected to mention them because I often (perhaps out of wishful thinking) forget they exist.

Jonathan

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