Re: A Proposal to Move to Git

"H.J. Lu" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <CAMe9rOqDPW9-ckm48zZ3CxDWzbAdjQqJq4+mucYTkjBmKveEHA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:37 AM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:40 AM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I assume git repo has both binutils and gdb. Is that possible to
>>>> only checkout binutils portion?
>>>>
>>>
>>> you can do this with sparse checkouts, but note that it is something
>>> you will have to do on the client side, as far as I know there is no
>>> way to configure this from the server side/on cloning, and your .git
>>> dir will contain history for both..
>>>
>>
>> Does sparse checkout work for binuitls/gdb git repo?
>> Has anyone tried?
>
> It did the last time that I tried, and was even useful for doing an
> uberbaum tree using the gcc git mirror, this may make maintaining the
> files existing in both repositories easier, but since it required a
> different conversion of the repositories than the current mirrors, I
> haven't done so recently.

We need to provide scripts to enable sparse checkout for
binutils and gdb.

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H.J.
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