Re: Next steps from GTI TAC meeting on 2023-03-08 - Evaluate cost of glibc migration.

On Wed, 24 May 2023, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> If we removed all the hooks, what is the consequence of a commit that is 
> wrong? Can we just fix the sources with a subsequent commit? Add a 
> light-weight linting check in 'make check' that additionally reports 
> this?

The consequence, at least for GCC, is that other scripting that depends on 
certain invariants of commits falls over.  Mapping from SVN revisions to 
git commits relies on only a single commit matching a given From-SVN 
commit message pattern rather than such a commit message getting quoted in 
another commit message in a way that confuses the mapping.  ChangeLog 
generation falls over if there are various problems with commit contents 
or messages.

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Joseph S. Myers
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