Re: RFC: gdb web page patch for git conversion

Pedro Alves
2013-09-02T18:18:08Z

On 08/29/2013 09:55 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:15:38PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> Here's the patch I came up with for converting the gdb web pages to git.
>
> FWIW, it looks good to me.
>
>> I vaguely remember that there is some other crucial step after
>> committing, maybe in order to push the changes to the FSF? I don't
>> remember any details about it; so if you know, please respond.
>
> Yes. Committing to the sourceware CVS automatically gets the sourceware
> web pages updated, but then we need to push the same change to the CVS
> at savannah. I've been doing that by maintaining a git mirror of the CVS
> repo, and cvsexportcommit'ing to both CVS. I can take care of that part.

I'm sure you've thought of that, but I'm curious.
Is there any hope in converting those repos away from CVS too at some
point? With git (or any DCVS), it sounds like savannah's could just be
a clone of sourceware's...

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Pedro Alves