Hi all. I'm prepping for my first GHC commit, so I'm paying attention to all the details.

 

I'm following the workflow described here

 

  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git#Workflowwithvalidate

 

And I have a couple questions. Ultimately, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if those commands on that wiki page are either out-of-date or don't list some prerequisites.

 

Question #1

 

When I run

 

  ./sync-all new

 

The output shows lots of commits from the upstream repositories.

 

  * Is there a sync-all switch to avoid that somehow?

 

  * Is ./sync-all push going to push those? That'd be bad.

 

Question #2

 

I omit dph from my working tree. Consequently, I think, sync-all in the validate tree chokes on some of the commands from that's wiki page's workflow (eg ./sync-all new). This choking prevents it from executing the command on the repos that come after dph in the list (ie the top-level GHC repo). Adding --no-dph doesn't seem to help here.

 

Are there any known pitfalls here that I may have tripped into? Or perhaps some flags I could add to my command lines?

 

Else, it seems that adding dph to my working repo is necessary for validation with this suggested workflow.

 

Thank you for your time.