Re: gdb.git mirror is broken

Jim Meyering
2009-10-06T14:33:56Z

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> perhaps we should think ahead to the day if/when everyone
>> is using git and not CVS.
>
> The day when each project can choose its version control system, and
> change between systems, independently and without needing to change in
> sync with other projects, sounds much better to me. That there is any
> link at all between the development of GDB and Cygwin, for example, is a
> defect in the present system that should be fixed by the move of either
> project to another system.
>
>> If I need to make a change in gnulib, I don't change
>> coreutils/gnulib/, but rather make the change in a separate
>
> First and foremost, as I said in
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-05/msg00117.html>, version control
> should make common tasks easy. That means a single command in a binutils
> checkout to commit both a BFD change and the testcases in the ld
> testsuite, for example. What things look like underneath is less
> important, and the exact spelling of the command is less important - but
> if it doesn't look like a single repository for common use cases like
> that, something is seriously wrong.
>
> Version control should also make mistakes hard - it should be hard to
> check in an incomplete patch by accident, or think you have checked in a
> change when it has not gone where it should, for example, and extremely
> hard to break the repository.
>
> (Advocates of any change also still need to work out the detailed designs,
> as I noted in <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-05/msg00213.html>.)

No pressure from me.
I barely have time to help with the technical side of things,
so if you want someone willing to invest in advocacy I'm not your man.