From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 84538 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2017 16:01:11 -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 84521 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jan 2017 16:01:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Side-question, Sidequestion, CVS X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:01:00 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A32C531B305; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.4]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v0AG0wNI011114; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:00:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update help of the "frame" command To: Yao Qi , Simon Marchi References: <20170106151610.28872-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <20170109172726.GA9518@E107787-LIN> <47dca06e2fcc932db67832e6c1867e92@polymtl.ca> <20170110110032.GE9518@E107787-LIN> Cc: Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <250d1b68-afd8-4429-b76d-a73e741c678f@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:01:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170110110032.GE9518@E107787-LIN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 On 01/10/2017 11:00 AM, Yao Qi wrote: > On 17-01-09 13:13:42, Simon Marchi wrote: >> Side-question, is there a git repo somewhere with all these old gdb >> versions, those that predate what's in the current git tree? It >> would be useful to have a repo with one commit per version. Here I >> had to download many tarballs and bisect manually, but if they had >> been in a repo it would have been trivial. If it doesn't exist yet, >> I think I'll do it. >> >> [1] ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/old-releases/ > > They were imported into the git repository. The change you found > above is in b00771232fab861fb31e42dfd5f6643ba1b43cc9 > Yes, they were imported from here: https://github.com/palves/gdb-old-releases The git history around the initial CVS import is quite annoying, since there were a series of commits that added the whole of gdb, then removed it, then re-added it, etc. I think there are ways in git nowadays to tell (local) git to see through a range of commits, so effectively "virtually squash" those deletions as if they never existed, but I never investigated exactly how to do it. If someone pulls that off, I think it'd be great. Thanks, Pedro Alves