From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17067 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 23:51:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 17057 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2011 23:51:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:50:51 +0000 Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REV33-0006b5-L4; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:50:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:51:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) To: pmuldoon@redhat.com CC: joseph@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Phil Muldoon on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:02:46 +0100) Subject: Re: GIT and CVS Reply-to: ams@gnu.org References: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 I'm not debating that a unified source is useful, of course it is. I personally build GDB on Fedora, and beyond what is in the tree, there are many non-inclusive packages I have to find to build GDB. Do you have examples? I don't install any strange dependencies most of the time... Jan has covered this in detail. Lets just divorce this argument for now. If we have to continue building ChangeLogs with GIT then so be it. I'm not against this. I'm just trying to understand how git replaces ChangeLog (which are the exact same thing as commit messages). I suspect there is some grave misunderstanding in the discussion.