Re: Moving GDB sources to subversion?

H. J. Lu
2005-10-29T00:15:23Z

I'd like to see gdb move to bugzilla before subversion.

H.J.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:08:34PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
>
> > > > I think GCC is getting ready to move to subversion as the revision
> > > > control system. Is there any similar plan for GDB?
> > >
> > > Why should we?
> >
> > I wasn't implying that we should. I haven't seen any discussion about
> > this (but maybe I missed them). However, I have heard rumors that GCC
> > *is* going to move to svn. I think GCC and GDB have been in the same
> > physical repository so far (src?), so I was afraid that a change for
> > GCC would necessarily impact GDB.
>
> gcc has moved to subversion. The conversion finished today.
>
> This does not affect gdb. At present gdb, binutils, newlib, and
> cygwin share a single CVS repository. gcc is in a subversion
> repository.
>
> This does affect anybody using the uberbaum pseudo-repository; if you
> don't know what that is, don't ask.
>
> It would be simpler for the sourceware.org overseers (including
> myself) if every project converted to subversion. And subversion does
> have some advantages over CVS.
>
> But really each project is going to have to decide for itself whether
> to switch or not.
>
> (If you want to switch to something other than CVS or subversion, you
> will have to be prepared to convince the overseers to do whatever
> management is required by whatever new system is chosen. Daniel
> Berlin went through that process for subversion for gcc.)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ian