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Re: arm gcc: info about branches on svn and git
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 14:17:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: arm gcc: info about branches on svn and git
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On 18 December 2015 at 12:26, Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Here it is told "Very occasionally these branches will hold patches
>>> that are waiting for trunk acceptance". I wonder why new feature, bug
>>> fixes and enhancement aren't regularly submitted for trunk acceptance.
>>
>> It doesn't say that.
>>
>> It says that some patches are *waiting* to be accepted, not that they
>> were not submitted.
> I wonder why not all patches are submitted.
> As it is written, it seems that some patches (perhaps many) are never
> submitted for trunk acceptance
No, it doesn't say that.
>> I don't know anything about the branch, but the way I read the docs
>> the branch *might* have some arm-specific features that were added on
>> trunk but not backported to the official gcc-4_9-branch. It *might*
>> also have some arm-specific patches that were added to the branch and
>> haven't been added to trunk yet.
>>
>> So the patches on the branch are either already on trunk or have been
>> proposed for the trunk.
> So trunk might already have patch applied to ARM/embedded-*-branch.
>
> Is it reasonable to assume that the official gcc-5-branch has at least
> all the ARM/embedded-4_8-branch patches (and maybe some patch from
> ARM/embedded-4_9-branch)?
Yes, probably, but I would compare the branches myself if I cared.