Re: What is keeping GDB in CVS ?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-19T16:23:20Z

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:13:31PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Hi. I'm wondering what the reasons are that GDB is still using CVS.
> In other words: what work must be done in order for it to be possible
> to switch it over to Git or Bzr?

Two things. One is a compelling reason to switch. (This is not an
invitation; there's plenty of discussion of this in the archives.
Personally I'd be happy to switch, but I'm easy to convince plus
having it in CVS is a real nuisance for me.)

The other thing is the combined src repository, which is shared
between many projects including binutils, newlib, cgen, and gdb. I
think we need to either decide to split them up and manage the shared
directories specially, or come up with a clever way to fake
CVS-style modules. Or else give up and make people check out the
whole thing, which might drive projects out into a new repository
anyway; a src checkout is bigger than anyone needs.

There was another discussion of this on the binutils list recently.

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-05/msg00028.html

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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