From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: overseers@sourceware.org, nickc@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Subversion and sources.redhat.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051103155724.GA540@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051103155455.GA396@nevyn.them.org>
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:54:55AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:31:58AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > It would probably be appropriate for their to be some coordination
> > among the projects who share the src repository (binutils, gdb,
> > cygwin, newlib).
>
> Absolutely. I'd like everyone to change at once. Two things to note:
>
> - Some of the GDB developers seem opposed. I'm not real clear on
> why.
>
> - It might be nice to convert each project into its own svn
> repository, and make use of svn:externals. I'm not sure if it's
> adequately flexible though.
>
> The likely problem is that checking out less than the whole repository
> in Subversion is much more awkward. I don't want to have to check out
> sid to build binutils. Someone who cares about making the switch needs
> to sit down and play with the options.
No, svn:externals won't be a good fix for this problem; one is still
needed.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-03 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 15:03 Nick Clifton
2005-11-01 20:20 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-11-03 15:55 ` Nick Clifton
2005-11-03 15:57 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-11-03 16:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-03 16:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-11-03 20:19 ` Joseph S. Myers
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