Re: Merged CVS repository of gcc and old-gcc

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:51 +0200, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg00625.html:
> 
> > In preparation for the future transition to subversion, I've written
> > some code to merge the old-gcc repository into current mainline.  I
> > would like to see this merged repository used as the basis for the
> > conversion to subversion.  The advantage is that it provides revision
> > history back to 1992, when the gcc sources were first put into a
> > source code control system.  (At the time, it was RCS.  Before 1992
> > the source code control system was emacs numbered backup files.)
> > 
> > Since I just wrote this code, I'd like any feedback that people care
> > to give on the correctness and usability of the generated repository.
> > People with SSH access to sourceware should be able to access the
> > temporary merged repository by doing
> >     cvs -d :ext:gcc.gnu.org:/pool/ian/repo co gcc
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > By the way, in case anybody asks, I will not be doing this merge
> > before the subversion conversion, because it changes all the CVS
> > revision numbers and thus breaks all existing working directories.
> 
> What will happen to the (revision number based) hyperlinks to patches
> in Bugzilla and the gcc-cvs mailing list archive like the following:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/reg-stack.c.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.188&r2=1.189

> Will they still point to something useful?

We will keep a read-only version of the cvs repository around along with
cvsweb so that the links still work.

At least, that is the current plan.