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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.lists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GIT and CVS
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.lists@gmail.com> writes:

Pedro> Why not mercurial? it's more user friendly than git, and better cross
Pedro> platform support.

To answer your question, most active gdb developers are already using
git and just use CVS for the final commit.


But let's end this thread.  We've had this discussion several times now
and haven't learned anything new since (see point 6):

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-03/msg00486.html

The problem has been the lack of manpower, and perhaps willpower, to do
the actual work.

Tom