On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 08:54 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org>: > > > Do people really want to keep tweaking the conversions and postpone the > > > git switchover? > > > > No. > > It may not be my place to say, but...I think the stakes are pretty > high here. If I were a GCC developer, I think I'd want the best > possible conversion even if that takes a little longer. Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true.
I do a ton of historical digging, possibly more than anyone else involved with GCC. The git-svn mirror has been sufficient for that for years, even with the warts that folks have pointed out. Given that, delaying to achieve a perfect conversion is, IMHO, just silly. I don't mind delaying a few days here or there because we want to do verification, or to line up better with our own development schedules. What I don't want to do is delay because any particular tool is still being tweaked to get closer to that "perfect" conversion. So the question I would ask is the state of each converter today and how they compare to each other. That argues we need time to compare the result, which as I noted above is fine by me. But we ought to be comparing the converter's state as of right now. Jeff
