> On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:00 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > > There are several instances of OpenJDK source being hosted in Git > repositories instead of Mercurial. AdoptOpenJDK is one and some engineers use > local conversions for their day to day work. Project Skara aims to > investigate Git as well. To better support this, the build needs to be able > to support Git as an alternative to Mercurial when creating the > identification hash in the release file. It would also be convenient with a > .gitignore file mirroring the .hgignore file. > > This patch adds such support as well as a .gitignore file. > > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210283 > > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8210283/webrev.01/index.html > > /Erik
[Just a comment, not a review (I don’t feel qualified to really review this change).] The comment starting at line 36 of make/SourceRevision.gmk needs updating.
