From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100101141806.GP548@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1001011247500.10597@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Thanks for the suggestions!
> Do not try to plan a transition for the whole src repository. Try to plan
> one for GDB and Binutils together at most [*], on the basis that other
> projects such as Cygwin and Newlib should choose their own version control
> systems in their own way and at such times as are convenient to them.
I would be happy with such an approach - in fact, I think that makes
the task easier too, since we'd have fewer groups to coordinate.
> My suggestion is to handle the shared toplevel files in a DVCS-pure way -
> no one master repository, changes committed to any repository get merged
> to the others automatically.
I think GCC has something more or less similar where they have a semi-
automated merge mechanism? That would perfectly work for me.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-01 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-01 8:02 Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 9:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 15:39 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-01 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 10:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-01-01 10:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-01 11:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 16:06 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-01 17:57 ` H.J. Lu
2010-01-01 13:00 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-01-01 14:18 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-01-02 18:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-01-02 19:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-01-03 13:52 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-08 12:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2010-01-08 13:08 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-08 13:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 13:26 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-08 13:13 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 13:21 ` Jonas Maebe
2010-01-08 13:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-08 13:14 ` Jonas Maebe
2010-01-08 18:41 ` Michael Snyder
2010-01-08 18:49 ` Paul Koning
2010-12-20 17:35 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-21 3:46 ` Jim Blandy
2010-12-21 7:16 ` Pascal Obry
2010-12-21 15:14 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-21 16:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-12-21 18:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 19:26 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-21 18:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 19:21 ` DJ Delorie
2010-12-22 15:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-12-22 15:29 ` NightStrike
2010-12-22 16:48 ` Joseph S. Myers
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