From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20929 invoked by alias); 22 May 2013 10:23:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20916 invoked by uid 89); 22 May 2013 10:23:45 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4350F1C759A; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Tkm+Oos0L+FM; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37651C6E4C; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D96BD5295; Wed, 22 May 2013 14:23:37 +0400 (RET) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pedro Alves Cc: GDB Patches Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki Message-ID: <20130522102337.GB4017@adacore.com> References: <51965CE3.4020805@redhat.com> <20130520100618.GR4017@adacore.com> <519A3DCC.1020805@redhat.com> <20130521052552.GT4017@adacore.com> <519BB505.60805@redhat.com> <20130522062931.GA4017@adacore.com> <519C99F8.1000206@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <519C99F8.1000206@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg00821.txt.bz2 > That I'm not so sure. I do find them useful for archaeology. My > current view mirrors Alexandre's here, so I'll just make his words > mine :-) : > > http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00100.html I don't want to open a debate over this, as we would first need to switch to git in order for me to make a possibly-compelling argument in favor of getting rid of them. But the reason why I got rid of them at AdaCore is that git log has become a much more powerful way to perform searches (you can limit the output using criteria such as dates, or author, for instance). In the meantime, they stopped getting in the way, as they were are a constant source of merge/cherry-pick conflicts. -- Joel