[Piglit] [Mesa-dev] Rename "master" branch to "main"?

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Thu Mar 25 15:11:45 UTC 2021


On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 9:41 AM Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:15 PM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> >
> > On March 24, 2021 22:25:10 Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 3:52 PM Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2021-03-23 09:38:59, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 7:02 AM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Trying to pick this discussion back up.  Daniel Stone thinks it's a
> >>>>> half hour of API bashing to retarget all the MRs so, if the fd.o
> >>>>> admins have some heads up, it should be tractable.  Should we do this
> >>>>> right after branching 21.1 along with the LTS branch?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> +1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jason,
> >>>
> >>> I opened a related Mesa issue:
> >>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/4501
> >>>
> >>> I made this change in crucible, and used a script to update the 7 MR
> >>> target branches:
> >>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/crucible/-/issues/5
> >>>
> >>> As mentioned in the Mesa issue, I think we should use piglit as
> >>> another test run before changing Mesa:
> >>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/piglit/-/issues/50
> >>>
> >>> Piglit currently has 60 open merge requests.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm in favor of branch rename, but was in the camp of "hope gitlab
> >> comes up with a way to make this easy for us".. but as far as fallback
> >> plan, converting trees with fewer outstanding MRs first seems like a
> >> pretty good idea so solid +1 for that
> >
> >
> > If you read enough off the things, you'll see that Jordan wrote a python script that re-targets all the open MRs so that's not a manual process. It's not a GitLab-sanctioned solution but it's the next best thing. The one downside is that all the MRs will get their last updated timestamp reset but that seems like a pretty small price to pay.
> >
>
> yeah, I meant to convert a repo w/ more MRs than 7 but less than mesa
> using the script to beta test that, wasn't suggesting to do it by hand

Plan is to convert piglit next.  It's sitting at about 60 open MRs.

--Jason


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