Update on JDK 10 repo consolidation; third generation prototype coming soon, September 2017 still the target

[joe darcy]

Hello Gerard,

On 9/7/2017 11:55 AM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
> hi Joe,
>
>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:00 PM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How do the project repos move across to the new consolidated form? Will we lose all the changeset history?
>>>
>> I recommend project forests sync up with the last pre-consolidated JDK 10, extract the patches from the changesets, and then reapply the changesets to a new consolidated baseline of the project forest.
> A quick follow-up: you did not answer David’s question on preserving the files’ history - is it going to be preserved?
>

Whether or not history is replicated on a per-file level will depend on 
how the teams using the project forests move their work over. If the 
work is moved as one huge patch, the history will not be preserved. If 
each changeset is isolated, converted to the new paths structure, and 
then applied again, the history would be replicated (modulo 
complications from merges).

(It is not possible to run the conversion script on the project repos 
and then have them pull from the consolidated master.)

HTH,

-Joe