From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28812 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2010 15:14:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 28799 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Dec 2010 15:14:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD 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; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:14:01 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBLFDRZo010066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:13:27 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oBLFDPoD002127; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:13:26 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBLFDOR4007898; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:13:25 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8FA41378282; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:13:24 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: obry@adacore.com Cc: Joel Brobecker , "Joseph S. Myers" , gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <20101221032725.GS2618@adacore.com> <4D105433.4080302@adacore.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:14:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4D105433.4080302@adacore.com> (Pascal Obry's message of "Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:16:03 +0100") 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 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: 2010-12/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry writes: Pascal> Just to note that Git has support for partial checkout. Nice -- new in 1.7: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout Pascal> As it is a common misconception I'd like to mention that Git Pascal> support /partial checkout/ and NOT /partial fetch/. That is, the Pascal> whole repository is fetched and you can just checkout the part Pascal> that you want to work on. This is hardly a problem as the Pascal> network support in Git is very efficient. Perhaps some people will be concerned about the disk space. (Though I am not.) I looked through CVSROOT/modules a little. I think it would be good if we could split some of the modules off into their own repositories. However, I don't know what in there is active or even what projects would not mind being split off. Tom