From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9096 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2013 21:19:23 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 9073 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2013 21:19:23 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:19:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8333C1166E8; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:19:26 -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 EyIsWOsb7J+x; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520D91162B3; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B93E1C390B; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:19:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: GDB Development , Binutils Development Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git Message-ID: <20130820211919.GH17803@adacore.com> References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 I've glanced at the plan, and I have to say that I am pretty excited if this becomes reality :). Thanks for doing this, Tom! > I'd like to do the final switch around mid-September. Not sooner, > because I am going to be away for a little while near the end of > August, and I want to be available to fix problems. Also, I think it would be better to just get the 7.7 release out the door with CVS, allowing us then a few months to transition to git without impacting any release. Chance are that, if switching over to git, I'll rewrite all release scripts rather than adapt them, as a lot of stuff could be done better, as well as completely automated instead of semi-manual. -- Joel