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Re: CVS access to the uberbaum tree
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:56:01AM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
>Peter Barada wrote:
>>Does the uberbaum tree exist on savanna, or is it only on
>>sources.redhat.com? If so, what is the procedure for accessing it?
>
>I would not recommend use of uberbaum. There are some old-time
>ex-Cygnus hackers that use it, because it gives an environment familiar
>to the one we used inside Cygnus. For everyone else, it probably causes
>more problems than it solves.
>
>uberbaum exists only on sourceware.org. It is a symlink tree that tries
>to make two CVS repositories look like one. Because it is a fake tree,
>you can not use it for checking in patches. You can only use it for
>checkouts. Because few people use it, when it breaks, it may be a while
>before it is fixed. Personally, I find it easier to just check out the
>different trees and then create a local symlink tree.
Actually, I use uberbaum to check in changes to gcc, gdb, and cygwin.
If there was breakage then it would be fixed like any other problem in
the repository - send email to overseers.
Using it is pretty straightforward - /cvs/uberbaum is the root.
However, since gcc is moving to subversion, it doesn't make any sense to
get used to using it right now.
cgf