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Re: Update on GCC moving to svn
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > I should probably note again that i don't plan to convert wwwdocs to svn
> > right now, because the checkout scripts are a bit hard to follow, etc.
>
> Per se there doesn't seem to be as much of an advantage for wwwdocs
> as we had for gcc (no branches, most changes only to one or two files,
> no need for binary regression search, no tagging,...) so it's not
> urgent.
>
> In the mid term, it'll probably be simpler to have both gcc and wwwdocs
> under one version control system. I'll certainly help where I can; for
> the more intricate scripts, Jason Molenda probably is the best person
> to ask for help.
It should also be a lot easier to get the commit hooks to do what we want
with SVN. As is, the auto-checkout sends its own messages to
gcc-cvs-wwwdocs because of an unknown problem with using log_accum there;
with SVN we could and should generate messages just like those which go to
gcc-cvs.
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