Re: Handling patches via email (particularly thunderbird).

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 28 November 2012 18:25:07 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> > On 11/28/2012 01:37 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> I'm curious, why doesn't it work well with gcc?
> > 
> > Subversion, mostly.
> 
> Right, so I didn't expect you to interpret it that
> literally. I was thinking more about the process
> and not the exact tools.

there is a read-only git repo.  i use that to manage patches and then use svn 
just for the commit.

> All of this reminds me how much I dislike working
> with cvs in binutils... I wonder how much energy
> it would take to make gcc, gdb, and binutils all
> start using git?

there are git mirrors of binutils/gdb too.  but this is a big topic full of 
worms that has been covered in a number of threads on the binutils list.
-mike

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