From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17539 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 23:20:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 17531 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2011 23:20:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BZ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:20:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9DNKafm015684 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:20:36 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9DNKYPp025419; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:20:35 -0400 From: Phil Muldoon To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GIT and CVS References: <83r52g1rly.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-to: pmuldoon@redhat.com X-URL: http://www.redhat.com Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83r52g1rly.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:58:17 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00097.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Phil Muldoon >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:37:22 +0100 >> >> GIT is, I think, available everywhere, has a CVS interface, and is >> far, far quicker than CVS. > > Git is available on GNU/Linux, which is a lot, but it ain't > "everywhere". I guess we have to quantify the development platforms for GDB. This is different from the deployment platforms. On which platforms do developers develop on GDB? Is GIT available there? Is there a platform where people contribute where GIT is not available? I hope to find that out. > My main development machines run MS-Windows. Git sucks on MS-Windows In which way, how does it differ from GNU/Linux * Distros? Do you have the CVS add-on to git on MS-Windows? Are you running Cygwin? If it sucks, is it a matter of requesting maintainer updates? > (I don't like it much on GNU/Linux, either). If we are to switch to > git, it'll probably make me much less active as a member of the GDB > project. GIT offers a CVS extension to make this as transparent as possible. Why would that affect your contribution? > If we are going to switch to a dVCS, git is not the only choice. I > like bzr better; bzr is a GNU project, unlike git. Given your question above, does bzr fulfill the roles any better than GIT? Cheers, Phil