How to update Sumatra repos to JDK9?

[John Rose]

On May 14, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Caspole, Eric <Eric.Caspole at amd.com> wrote:

> What is the best way to update the Sumatra JDK to be based on JDK9?
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/sumatra/sumatra-dev
> 
> I have been experimenting with different merges all afternoon but nothing seems good. I updated Sumatra to jdk8-129 in February, but JDK9 was forked after jdk8-120 so it is pretty messy.
> 
> Is there an easier way to complete the merge with JDK9 or is it better to start over?
> I think it would be OK to start over with a clean JDK 9 clone and we can add back our changes.

I agree.  If the base repos are forked (jdk8 -> jdk9) this downstream repo should fork also.

We need to put in some sort of blacklist to prevent an old changeset from getting written back into the new repo contents.  I think John Coomes knows a way to do this.

— John