LLVM Still Looking At Migration To GitHub

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Still Looking At Migration To GitHub

For the past number of months the LLVM project has been considering a move from their SVN-based development process to Git with a focus on GitHub. That effort continues moving forward...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-GitHub-Survey

[uid313]

Last Friday GitHub was inaccessible due to their DNS provider Dyn being attacked with massive distributed denial-of-service attack of unprecedented scale.

[AsuMagic]

Last Friday GitHub was inaccessible due to their DNS provider Dyn being attacked with massive distributed denial-of-service attack of unprecedented scale.

How is that relevant?

[Guest]

How is that relevant?

I think he means that self hosted projects don't necessarily suffer from the kind of attack very popular service providers do.

[FireBurn]

I think he means that self hosted projects don't necessarily suffer from the kind of attack very popular service providers do.

But if they are attacked they probably wouldn't have the infrastructure to deal with it anyway

[starshipeleven]

But if they are attacked they probably wouldn't have the infrastructure to deal with it anyway

But in most cases none in his right mind will attack a plain git server (no web no nothing else) hosting LLVM sources and little else. I mean, cool, some script kiddies may gather 10 PCs and start spamming "git push" or something with a script until someone bans their IP or something, then what?

Github is a much higher-profile target with plenty more attack surface, where it makes sense to launch mercenary (i.e. paid by third party for whatever reason) attacks. To actually ddos Github you need a bigass botnet, and that ain't cheap.
It's well into the organized crime area, you don't find script kiddies at the helm there, they are after money.

[uid313]

It's well into the organized crime area, you don't find script kiddies at the helm there, they are after money.

It is not only about organized crime but also about nation/state-sponsored attacks and cyberwarfare.

Someone attacked Dyn, and it brought down all their customers, it brought down GitHub which was not even a target.

[Mateus Felipe]

The question is: why they did not use git since ever?

[fakenmc]

The question is: why they did not use git since ever?

Because there was no git when LLVM was first released and change takes time.

[slacka]

If they pull it off, I hope they can combine clang with LLVM so we can finally git bisect regressions. As it stands now there LLVM and Clang are in 2 separate repositories that share the same revision number. In order to bisect a regression. You have to manually sync Clang and LLVM.

If they can map the shared revision to a commit and put them both in the same repository, it will make things so much simpler.