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Re: git is live
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>, Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:25:45 -0800
- Subject: Re: git is live
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to see vendor branches on sourceware.
>
> Can you explain why this would be a good thing for the project?
Ian described it the best of why GCC allows it:
> I'm mildly in favor of permitting vendor branches on gcc.gnu.org for a
> different reason: it encourages vendors with GCC extensions to make
> those extensions readily available to everybody. If we require
> vendors to handle their own hosting, we will inevitably have some who
> simply decide not to bother.
I think the same is true of gdb and binutils to some extend. And yes
most of the vendors have patches on top of the base versions of gdb,
binutils and gcc.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
>
> --
> Joel