Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS

Tristan Gingold
2010-01-08T13:26:11Z

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).
>
> 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 copyright 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 does 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.