From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29495 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2014 14:27:29 -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 29474 invoked by uid 89); 7 Apr 2014 14:27:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx2.suse.de Received: from cantor2.suse.de (HELO mx2.suse.de) (195.135.220.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:27:26 +0000 Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E919AB43; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:27:00 -0000 From: Michael Matz To: Joel Brobecker cc: Aaro Koskinen , Sergio Durigan Junior , Edjunior Barbosa Machado , GDB , Binutils , Peter Bergner , Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho Subject: Re: Vendor branches on sourceware.org's binutils-gdb repo In-Reply-To: <20140407035120.GA4186@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <53406399.9050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140406191404.GC7558@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20140407035120.GA4186@adacore.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Hi, On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > I think it's very useful for users to have all vendor branches in a > > single repository. At least with glibc this has helped me a lot (as a > > user) when identifying and cherry-picking needed fixes to my own > > systems. > > FWIW: I have found that the extra branches are just making me download > lots of commits that I have no use for, and I suspect that this is the > case for many of us. That's the default behavior, and most users will be > impacted by those. While it's convenient, it is also very easy to pull a > branch from another repository. But it's not necessarily easy for the vendor to _host_ that other repository. And IMHO, the current 288 MB for binutils-gdb git objects aren't enough to discourage vendor branches (and if you're worried about the download size it's equally easy to simply not pull those branches). Ciao, Michael.