From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8722 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2010 13:26:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 8713 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2010 13:26:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (212.99.106.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:26:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9124CCB025C; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:26:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H51igU0tBRPz; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:26:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from ulanbator.act-europe.fr (ulanbator.act-europe.fr [10.10.1.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7223BCB0244; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:26:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Tristan Gingold In-Reply-To: <20100108132008.GQ4623@adacore.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:26:00 -0000 Cc: Phil Muldoon , gdb@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <24A3BE8F-4985-4682-AB96-23EFA02EA5CA@adacore.com> References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <4B472BDC.1030301@redhat.com> <20100108132008.GQ4623@adacore.com> To: Joel Brobecker X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-01/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Sure. I now always work on gdb.git (from git mirror) but still use >> CVS to do my commit. Using this approach makes the switch much less >> necessary (IMHO). >=20 > I disagree entirely. We're wasting time everytime someone does a commit. > I think I spend about half a day doing the copyright year updates, and > in the end, I decided to simply stop checking the diffs before doing > the commit, since getting a diff was simply taking too much time. > Regardless of what we end up choosing, there is no doubt in my mind > that we must stop using CVS ASAP. I agree. I should have said 'less urgent'. I also sympathize with the cop= yright year work. > You guys also don't have to deal with branches, but branches just do > not work neither with CVS, nor with SVN. Yes, I agree. Back-porting is boring. For binutils I have a script that d= oes the work from the commit mail. > I realize that this discussing might seem a little deja-vu and boring, > so I'll stop now, and spend the energy on working on an alternative. Good luck! Tristan.