From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7655 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2011 05:28:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 7645 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Oct 2011 05:28:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout7.freenet.de (HELO mout7.freenet.de) (195.4.92.97) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:28:29 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.141] (helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mout7.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.76 #5) id 1REwnL-0003yp-4z for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:28:27 +0200 Received: from localhost ([::1]:36961 helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1REwnL-0004pQ-2g for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:28:27 +0200 Received: from [195.4.92.19] (port=56165 helo=9.mx.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1REwlD-0003EI-EX for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:26:15 +0200 Received: from hsi-kbw-109-193-024-246.hsi7.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([109.193.24.246]:62593 helo=[192.168.1.104]) by 9.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (port 587) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1REwlD-0003Bc-6U for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4E991976.8070008@rtems.org> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:04:00 -0000 From: Ralf Corsepius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GIT and CVS References: <201110141435.59962.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD030C1CA128@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> In-Reply-To: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD030C1CA128@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2011-10/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 On 10/14/2011 05:02 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote: > The mail string subject is GIT vs CVS, but a lot of the discussion seems to be "replace CVS by something better" -- and the debate is on whether GIT is the right replacement or something else is. The debate should not be about GIT vs. CVS but about which "VCS caters gdb's developers' needs" and about which "VCS caters the gdb project's technical needs" best. > For the most part, my opinion is that anything at all (other than SCCS) is a *massive* improvement on CVS, Basically agreed, except that "everything comes at a price". That said, though most VCSes have aspects where they are superior to CVS, I haven't seen any which didn't also introduce regressions. > All things being equal I like SVN, but I get the impression that this isn't the majority opinion (even though GCC uses it). Well, I feel, due to git/bzr/hg etc., SVN is currently experiencing the same fate, CVS experienced when SVN was new. It was nice, when it was new, it had its time, but it also was largely hyped then and now is gradually fading away, because people now are considering git/bzr/hg to be superior (and are hyping it ;) ) Ralf