From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4624 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2011 16:59:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 4616 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Nov 2011 16:59:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm12.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO nm12.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:58:52 +0000 Received: from [66.94.237.195] by nm12.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2011 16:58:51 -0000 Received: from [66.94.237.123] by tm6.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2011 16:58:51 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1028.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2011 16:58:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 30223 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2011 16:58:51 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@98.110.183.46 with login) by smtp104.vzn.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2011 08:58:50 -0800 PST Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4126313C0D3; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:58:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:59:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: pmuldoon@redhat.com, Tom Tromey , gdb@sourceware.org, Pedro Larroy Subject: Re: GIT and CVS Message-ID: <20111116165850.GB4710@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: pmuldoon@redhat.com, Tom Tromey , gdb@sourceware.org, Pedro Larroy References: 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: 2011-11/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:02:24AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Larroy writes: > >Pedro> Why not mercurial? it's more user friendly than git, and better cross >Pedro> platform support. > >To answer your question, most active gdb developers are already using >git and just use CVS for the final commit. > > >But let's end this thread. We've had this discussion several times now >and haven't learned anything new since (see point 6): > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-03/msg00486.html > >The problem has been the lack of manpower, and perhaps willpower, to do >the actual work. I'd be happy to do the actual work on sourceware (I think this is long overdue) but I'm not keen on prospect of dealing with the more "political" nature of this issue. So maybe that's the willpower part. cgf