procedure to make MELT branch on GCC SVN?

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

On 17/02/2008, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
>
> I am a bit confused about this "making a branch" thing; I thought that
> by definition it is some informal experiment, but I'm beginning to think
> that it might be much more formal... and I don't grasp all the details!

As far as I know, for an existing contributor (legal stuff sorted out
and write-privileges in subversion) there are 3 steps:

1. Announce it. I think you already did that.
2. Update http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html#devbranches. This is easier than
it seems. http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html explains all but basically you
will do:

cvs -z 9 -d :ext:username@gcc.gnu.org:/cvs/gcc co wwwdocs
cd wwwdocs
emacs htdocs/svn.html
cvs -q diff (to check your changes)
cvs up
cvs ci htdocs/svn.html

3. Create the branch: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnBranch

These 3 steps may be performed in any order.

Cheers,

Manuel.