From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31270 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2013 14:39:42 -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 31252 invoked by uid 89); 22 Aug 2013 14:39:42 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f49.google.com) (74.125.82.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:39:41 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id y10so1669087wgg.4 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:39:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.188.102 with SMTP id fz6mr20922581wic.6.1377182378455; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.205.136 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:39:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130822142513.GH5147@adacore.com> References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <1377099478.5770.76.camel@ubuntu-sellcey> <52161D32.3090604@arm.com> <20130822142513.GH5147@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git From: Fred Cooke To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Richard Earnshaw , Steve Ellcey , Tom Tromey , GDB Development , Binutils Development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 Using two systems in parallel seems to be a terrible idea. One nice thing with Git is that the release branch, once imported, could be practiced on locally for honing the new process. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> If you switch after the releases have been made you also need to >> consider how you'll handle 'dot' releases should they be necessary. Are >> they going to come from the CVS source base and then be re-imported into >> GIT? Or, are you going to use a different process to handle them from >> that used to produce the main release? > > It's a good point. I thought we'd keep using CVS for 7.7.x while > transitioning to git for "HEAD". On the other hand, I like Tristan's > confidence, so I'd be OK with switching to git before we create > the 7.7 branch. Also, why force ourselves to use two systems, one > of them being phased out, when we can use just one? > > -- > Joel