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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: repository copy of FreeBSD i386 config file.
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000913201236.A93308@dragon.nuxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jmbsxtzowm.fsf@envy.cygnus.com>

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:05:29AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > I would like to see gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h,v repository copied to
> > > gcc/config/i386/freebsd-aout.h,v (I have a script to fixup the tags).
> > > [...]
> > > Doing such repository copies (ie, moving and coping files around w/in
> > > the repository) is documented in the CVS docs.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether we really want to do that (Basically, this is a
> > shortcoming of CVS that cannot be solved completely satisfactory)
> > or the following...
> 
> I think we really _don't_ want to do that.  It means that anyone who
> checks out the release branch would find it doesn't work on freebsd.

Why do you think that?  I assure you, this is not the case.  We do repo
copies on a regular basis in the FreeBSD CVS repository.  And that is
even mirrored by many, many thousands of people.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-13 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-04 13:52 David O'Brien
2000-09-12  5:02 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-09-12  7:06   ` Geoff Keating
2000-09-13 20:13     ` David O'Brien [this message]
2000-09-17 22:48   ` H . J . Lu
2000-09-12 11:53 ` Richard Henderson
2000-09-12 14:03 ` Marc Espie
2000-09-13 20:23   ` David O'Brien

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