Re: Moving GDB sources to subversion?

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

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