From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15820 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2010 16:15:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 15740 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Dec 2010 16:15:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-56-137.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.56.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:15:12 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112B513C0C9; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:15:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 05E6D2B352; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:15:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:15:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Tom Tromey , gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , obry@adacore.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, "Joseph S. Myers" Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS Message-ID: <20101221161509.GA2554@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , obry@adacore.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, "Joseph S. Myers" References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <20101221032725.GS2618@adacore.com> <4D105433.4080302@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-12/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:13:24AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry writes: > >Pascal> Just to note that Git has support for partial checkout. > >Nice -- new in 1.7: > >http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout > >Pascal> As it is a common misconception I'd like to mention that Git >Pascal> support /partial checkout/ and NOT /partial fetch/. That is, the >Pascal> whole repository is fetched and you can just checkout the part >Pascal> that you want to work on. This is hardly a problem as the >Pascal> network support in Git is very efficient. > >Perhaps some people will be concerned about the disk space. >(Though I am not.) > >I looked through CVSROOT/modules a little. I think it would be good if >we could split some of the modules off into their own repositories. >However, I don't know what in there is active or even what projects >would not mind being split off. As I've said before, I'd welcome splitting Cygwin into its own repository and I would be interested in helping on the sourceware side. cgf