From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18534 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2009 15:45:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 18525 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Oct 2009 15:45:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:45:47 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4816A2BAC2F; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:45:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id t63CcJHseFlx; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:45:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5222BAC09; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0451EF589B; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:45:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jim Meyering Cc: "H.J. Lu" , Tom Tromey , GDB Subject: Re: gdb.git mirror is broken Message-ID: <20091006154536.GR29600@adacore.com> References: <6dc9ffc80910051730p207a14f2m5ee6ff560ea60c33@mail.gmail.com> <87ws397z1b.fsf@meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ws397z1b.fsf@meyering.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 > If anyone is interested in switching primary GDB development > to git, once such a new repository is in place and deemed stable, > I urge you to dump CVS. While the conversion tools are not always > reliable, I can assure you that git itself has been amazingly reliable > for years. I think we're not quite ready to switch to any other version management system right now, unfortunately. But I strongly support a switch to git. The problem is that, for this to happen, we will have to agree to some adjustments in one way or the other, because we won't have partial checkouts anymore. This will need to be discussed by the maintainers of the various projects that are part of src, and getting an agreement might not be an easy task, especially across projects and with using just email... Several of us in the GDB project are very motivated in that direction, so as soon as things quiet down a bit, we'll try to come up with a plan and start discussing it seriously. -- Joel