JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[John Rose]

On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:

> I think it is much better to use the rebase extension to do 
> hg pull --rebase

Repo history is simplified if individual developers (a) delay commits and merges and (b) minimize private merges.

For my part, I use mq to manage my bug fixes in patch form, all the way up to the final push (or jprt job).  If the push fails for some reason, I reapply my patch and remerge.  There are no stacked merges.

In most cases, any push requires at most one merge.  Maybe jprt will throw in another merge, sometimes.

> Assuming that you have a large number of committers at work at the same time, a simple solution
> is to have the committers add themselves to a queue, then they get a message (IM,mail or otherwise)
> when they have exclusive access. When they are done, they relinquish their exclusive acces or
> it will be revoked automatically after 5 minutes.

If there is a critical section, it has to be long enough to allow relevant pre-integration testing.  For hotspot development, this means a jprt run.

For small fan-in situations (like Kelly noted), optimistic concurrency works very comfortably, without lock negotiation.

(Does anyone remember the days of using stuffed animals for source control locks?  I wonder what is the internet version of that.  Probably what Fredrik said.)

-- John