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Re: git is live
- From: Fred Cooke <fred dot cooke at gmail dot com>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, GDB Development <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:49:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: git is live
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That's a real shame. A possible and wasteful (resource wise) solution
might be to have a second url/repo binutlils-gdb-contrib or whatever.
If done locally on the same server, it could share hard links and not
take up much space, but I can see the majority hating this idea, and
that's fair enough.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 16:09 +0200, Fred Cooke wrote:
>> What drives the desire for that, though? With git you can publish your
>> own branches as you see fit, and link them to who ever is relevant.
>
> I agree that from a technical standpoint, hosting a branch elsewhere
> is possible with git. In my case, company policy doesn't allow it
> without jumping through some painful hoops. However, I am free to
> create branches in the upstream repo... as long as the project
> allows it.
>
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> Peter
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