Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
Alan Modra <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:10:47PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > From: Tom Tromey <[email protected]> > > CC: Binutils Development <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:41 -0600 > > > > I'd like to move gdb and binutils from CVS to Git. I've done much of > > the preliminary work and I will do the remainder, including the > > inevitable follow-up bug-fixing. > > I still *hate* git. I'm an old dinosaur too. :) I've only just started really using git, but I'm getting to like it.. > Except for one tiny question. How much free space do I need to clone A lot less than you need to make CVS reasonable. As a maintainer I find I often need to dig through old patches. With CVS that means you need a local copy of the whole repository, without which operations like cvs -D"some date" -D"some date + 2 minutes" take forever. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM