From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24743 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2013 23:55:12 -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 24717 invoked by uid 89); 22 Aug 2013 23:55:11 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-pd0-f181.google.com) (209.85.192.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:55:10 +0000 Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id g10so2547718pdj.40 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.68.163.131 with SMTP id yi3mr16134472pbb.55.1377215709412; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([101.166.26.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hx1sm17442267pbb.35.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7D63EA00C7; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:25:03 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:55:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Mark Kettenis Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git Message-ID: <20130822235503.GU3430@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201308222010.r7MKAljG013904@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201308222010.r7MKAljG013904@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:10:47PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > From: Tom Tromey > > CC: Binutils Development > > Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:41 -0600 > > > > I'd like to move gdb and binutils from CVS to Git. I've done much of > > the preliminary work and I will do the remainder, including the > > inevitable follow-up bug-fixing. > > I still *hate* git. I'm an old dinosaur too. :) I've only just started really using git, but I'm getting to like it.. > Except for one tiny question. How much free space do I need to clone A lot less than you need to make CVS reasonable. As a maintainer I find I often need to dig through old patches. With CVS that means you need a local copy of the whole repository, without which operations like cvs -D"some date" -D"some date + 2 minutes" take forever. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM