Re: What is keeping GDB in CVS ?

Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-19T19:29:27Z

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> So maybe they shouldn't be *shared*. There could be just one copy. I
> think everyone knows that you'll have problems as soon as you start
> duplicating data. This is no exception.
>
> I doubt that the gcc project would think it was a good idea but we could
> just break libiberty and the top-level configury into a separate
> repository too. Then when you make a change to a file, everyone gets
> the change and people will squawk immediately when you make a change to
> one of these files for gcc which happens to break a binutils build.

That worked for the old GNU hardlinks-to-,v-files approach. I don't think
it's effectively supported by any version control system more modern than
CVS.

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Joseph S. Myers
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