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Re: Issue Tracker Used? Git migration checklist.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:29:11AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think it would be great if you have the time to work to convert
>>> binutils and gdb to git.
>>>
>>> The first step is this: build consensus.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's already mirrored in git, that to me
>> indicates some consensus. As I see (saw?) it, the decision had already
>> been made, the migration just needed to be finished. If this was
>> wrong, then let's start again in the right place.
>
>I think there is a substantial consensus in favor of git, yes.
>
>However, as you know, there are several independent projects in the
>src repository. And some of the src directories are directly mirrored
>from the gcc sources. And the top level files are manually mirrored
>back and forth between src and gcc. How do we handle these issues?
>
>Personally I think Joseph is right in that we should keep binutils and
>gdb together in a single master repository. And I suppose that we
>could continue the existing mirroring of directories with GCC. But I
>don't really understand how this is going to work for the other
>repositories that use libiberty. Are we going to mirror to even more
>places? I know this has been discussed, I just don't understand the
>proposals.
>
>And of course the gdb and other src maintainers (newlib, cygwin) need
>to be brought into the plans as well.
FWIW, I've already started the work to mirror cygwin in git. You should
be able to not worry about it as long as you can get a consensus from
everyone else.
cgf