From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12141 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2013 16:03:35 -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 12105 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2013 16:03:34 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from ausc60pc101.us.dell.com (HELO ausc60pc101.us.dell.com) (143.166.85.206) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:03:33 +0000 X-LoopCount0: from 10.170.28.40 From: To: CC: , , , , Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201308222010.r7MKAljG013904@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <87wqnda0tm.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20130823155534.GR5147@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20130823155534.GR5147@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <7750791A427B2F42AA5D05C0F8986024@dell.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 I've heard that the answer may be better in recent versions. If not, you = can consider Subversion instead, since it certainly has the ability. paul On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I assume git repo has both binutils and gdb. Is that possible to >> only checkout binutils portion? >=20 > AFAIK, partial checkouts are not possible with git. That's one of > the reasons I felt it was so tough to get out of CVS. >=20 > --=20 > Joel