On 2013-12-05 at 11:17:01 +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: [...]
Fyi, I've drafted how the change would look like in the new ghc.git branch 'wip/T8545' so we can test/evaluate the effects/fallout before peforming this operation on 'master'.
So running
git clone -b wip/T8545 git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git cd ghc/ ./sync-all get
should result in a new checkout including the folded-in testsuite/ folder.
PS: I didn't merge in testsuite's Git history as that would bloat ghc.git quite a bit; however, 'git blame' functionality can be recovered in a local checkout by using something like Git's grafting feature: # make available old testsuite Git objects in local ghc.git git remote add -f old-testsuite git://git.haskell.org/testsuite.git # add 2nd parent commit to e45b9f57a90 pointing to testsuite.git echo e45b9f57a9044e8a20e3cc13bcff86b12b3da405 \ 1860dae3a7e377f085f3a4134f532a7f577fccbe \ 3e66489ebcef0f4cd86968c6781a1d4ad1981f94 > .git/info/grafts This way when peforming 'git blame' on files in the the testsuite/ folder results in sensible information dating back before the history-cut-off point.