CVS access to the uberbaum tree

[Christopher Faylor]

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