Re: RFC: gdb web page patch for git conversion

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>]

On 9/3/13 7:44 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 02:18 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> 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...
>>
>> I confess that I never really took any time considering the various
>> options for conversion. I update the web sites so seldomly, and
>> the CVS-git bridge has been working well enough, so I did not feel
>> it was worth much or our time. That being said, I'd be happy to get
>> rid of CVS there as well, if that was deemed important.
> 
> Ack.  I'll admit that my curiosity stems from the fact that
> I've myself considered tweaking the web pages before, but never
> managed to get myself over the fact that that would involve
> another cvs checkout.  :-)  I'll admit it sounds silly for
> someone who's been using cvs day in, day out.  Maybe that's
> just my unconscious telling me to avoid touching html.  :-)
> 

My semi-baked plan for the web site redesign, as seen at

http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/WebsiteRedesign

includes a git migration.

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com