From: Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.lists@gmail.com>
To: pmuldoon@redhat.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GIT and CVS
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC_CU1gLJaqM5uPU0P1b5hj-wBxouveJHHfc_hhCxDORFZGYcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sjmwn0nh.fsf@redhat.com>
Why not mercurial? it's more user friendly than git, and better cross
platform support.
Regards.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> At the risk of atomizing the poor horse, I want to refresh ideas and
> thoughts on this.
>
> First, I'll point out I am in favor of GIT. Not because GIT has won me
> over heart-and-soul, but purely because I can work on GDB GIT offline.
> This is not an inconsiderable benefit. I can create local check-ins,
> create branches, merge, cherry-pick all in the leisure of my own office,
> or garden, or airport ... without internet access.
>
> So that is my bias laid out.
>
> So why are we still on CVS? I'm not a release manager, so I do not have
> to do the difficult work of cutting branches, and all of the difficult
> work in making releases. But what are the objections to GIT?
> Personally, I'll give a strong bias to Joel's opinions because, frankly,
> he has to deal with this issue far more than any other.
>
> GIT is, I think, available everywhere, has a CVS interface, and is
> far, far quicker than CVS. Maybe with the stronger identity and
> information that comes with GIT logs we can finally retire
> ChangeLogs.
>
> CVS has served very well over the years. I, and many others, cut our
> teeth on it. It's been a good system. But beyond stability I
> don't see it keeping up with functionality of other repository systems.
> I find myself working on GIT 98% of the time, and the other 2% dealing
> with CVS on the final check-in. Surely I can't be the only hacker that
> does this? If the vast majority are in this work-flow, perhaps we
> should think about the pros and the cons again. I have no ideas about
> the work-flows of my GDB hackers, and if, you know, we are all doing this
> then we should recognize the elephant in the room. If not, then I will
> go happily into the (CVS) night, content on the validity of its use and
> utility.
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 19:37 Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 20:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 20:55 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:33 ` DJ Delorie
2011-10-13 21:44 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 21:51 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:19 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 5:56 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 6:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 23:03 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 6:01 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 6:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 7:01 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 7:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 15:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 15:49 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:51 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 21:59 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 22:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 5:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-14 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:14 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:56 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 6:04 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 10:23 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-10-14 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:09 ` Li, Rongsheng
2011-10-14 12:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 13:07 ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 15:05 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:52 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 15:47 ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 16:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 17:06 ` Matt Rice
2011-10-14 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-11 21:00 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-12 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-12 15:30 ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-14 5:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-14 15:38 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 12:36 ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 15:02 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 16:59 ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:02 ` Paul_Koning
2011-10-16 15:04 ` Ralf Corsepius
2011-10-14 16:10 ` André Pönitz
2011-11-11 22:50 ` Pedro Larroy [this message]
2011-11-12 8:28 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-13 0:05 ` John Hein
2011-11-15 15:02 ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-16 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor
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