From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: gdb_7_3-branch not buildable?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110417013834.GB2388@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2oc467i9t.fsf@igel.home>
> git-cvsimport can easily be confused by a branch that is created from a
> point back in time. That's a fundamental restriction of cvsps, because
> it only tells you about the revision of files that changed on the
> branch, but you never know the revision of the files that are unchanged.
> To fix that you have to manually reset the branch to the true
> branchpoint. See <git://repo.or.cz/src> for a more precise rendition of
> the src repository.
How about we just delete the 7.3 branch, and recreated from
the current sources? The fact that I made a mistake on the date
as well as the fact that back-dated branchpoints confuse git
are two arguments in favor of starting over...
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-17 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 22:29 Jim Meyering
2011-04-16 7:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-17 1:38 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-04-18 16:56 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-18 17:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-19 15:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-04-19 16:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-03 10:51 ` Jim Meyering
2011-05-03 13:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-03 13:32 ` Jim Meyering
2011-05-03 13:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-03 14:37 ` Jim Meyering
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