From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22485 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2005 00:27:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 22477 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2005 00:27:12 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:27:12 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EYuqq-0005PK-Dp; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:27:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:27:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Moving GDB sources to subversion? Message-ID: <20051107002708.GB20613@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20051028222253.GX1155@adacore.com> <200510282256.j9SMu2pQ002862@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20051028231430.GA9909@nevyn.them.org> <200510282324.j9SNOHql024377@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510282324.j9SNOHql024377@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:24:17AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:14:30 -0400 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:56:02AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > > > Why should we? > > > > I'd rather not rehash the months of discussion from the GCC list about > > this :-) > > The we're on the same wavelength. Let's put our effort into improving > GDB; not in changing our infrastructure, let alone discussions about > our infrastructure. On the contrary, I think I could do GDB development more effectively if it were not managed by CVS. Subversion is a lot more useful for things like branching, and finding bug fixes to merge them back to an old release branch your customers are still using. Which I waste a lot of time on. The only reason I'm not being more vocal about my preference to switch is that the src repository poses certain unique challenges that GCC didn't. Specifically, while cvs modules are insufficient for our needs, we've gotten used to their quirks and can cope with them. Subversion would have a whole different set of problems if you didn't want to check out the whole src tree. I don't think it's feasible for us to switch until someone has invested some time thinking about that problem, and coming up with a better solution than anything I've come up with so far. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC