Re: [PATCH] Prevent source file errors in --batch-silent mode

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 10:26 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:47:26AM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> > > and "switch src to svn 1.5 when it is released", FWIW.
> > 
> > Hum... any reason in particular for that? It seems everyone keeps their
> > own version of the GDB source tree. Using a distributed VCS would ease
> > that work and benefit everybody...
> 
> Because SVN is similar enough to CVS to be an easy transition and

When you say easy are you thinking of the similar concepts and usability
they have, or the migration process in itself?

> advanced enough that it can gateway to and from other VCS's (svk, git,
> presumably hg too) reliably for those who prefer something different.

I just read the git-svn manpage and there are some restrictions you
should observe to avoid problems. I never used the tool, but it seems
those restrictions can become annoying, so if the svn route is to be
taken I think having the read-only git mirror cgf mentions would be a
useful thing.

> There's no need to break up everyone's workflow and I refuse to do it.

By this you mean forcing everyone to grok/use the distributed model? If
this is an important consideration, Bazaar can be a good option since it
supports both workflows at the same time in a given repo, i.e., a
developer can choose to do a checkout or a clone.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center