From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14719 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2013 15:22:50 -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 14700 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2013 15:22:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-we0-f177.google.com Received: from mail-we0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f177.google.com) (74.125.82.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:22:49 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id x55so8243474wes.22 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.20.13 with SMTP id j13mr15016092wie.6.1382455365721; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.205.136 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87txg9gwmv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <877gd5iyaz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <874n89eidz.fsf@sandifor-thinkpad.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com> <87txg9gwmv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: git is live From: Fred Cooke To: Tom Tromey Cc: GDB Development , Binutils Development , rsandifo@linux.vnet.ibm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00082.txt.bz2 Source files can be gradually fixed or improved, CVS is broken for life ;-) Would appreciate the list, there may be some entertainment in there :-p On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cooke writes: > > Fred> Tom, although the commits that remove/readd all files are ugly, git is > Fred> smart enough to reuse the blobs, so they don't really do any harm. IE, > Fred> don't feel too bad about it :-) > > The specific problem is that git blame doesn't track through the weird > commits; and I know Pedro does this somewhat more often than other > people, and would have liked to see the real history, instead of having > to manually go back before April 1999. > > Fred> And thanks! A lot. I'll actually feel motivated (as opposed to > Fred> disgusted) > > I will send you a list of source files not to read :) > > Tom