From: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>,
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com>,
Binutils Development <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: git conversion status
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2758207.ySVLrTaVmN@dabox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1310142206310.2993@arjuna.pair.com>
Hi
> Counter-argument:
> I *prefer* src, exactly for that reason; "scripts expect that".
>
> If you-all want binutils+gdb (or some other combination of their
> names), I can live with that, but not another generic name just
> because someone offers the opinion that "src is utterly
> meaningless". It's not: it's the default name of the check-out
> directory of sourceware top-level...
Well the scripts have to be adapted to git anyway, so why not use a
sensible repository path (think URL) and do the conversion on clone
git clone SENSIBLE_URL src
? So the scripts are happy and the url is descriptive.
Best regards
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-15 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 17:01 Tom Tromey
2013-10-14 17:07 ` Fred Cooke
2013-10-14 17:45 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-14 19:01 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2013-10-14 19:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-14 20:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-14 20:08 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-14 20:11 ` Fred Cooke
2013-10-14 23:08 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-10-15 13:18 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-15 13:25 ` Fred Cooke
2013-10-15 15:09 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-10-15 22:35 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2013-10-15 2:12 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2013-10-15 7:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-15 8:03 ` Tim Sander [this message]
2013-10-15 16:57 ` Richard Sandiford
2013-10-15 17:52 ` Stan Shebs
2013-10-15 9:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-10-15 13:19 ` Tom Tromey
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