From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:20:16 +1100 Message-Id: <199902211120.WAA01557@tango.anu.edu.au> From: Paul Mackerras To: meissner@cygnus.com CC: zankel@tarantel.rz.fh-muenchen.de, bh40@calva.net, davidsen@prodigy.com, cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu, marsmail@globegate.utm.edu, dvdoug@tiac.net, paubert@iram.es, jskov@cygnus.co.uk, hozer@drgw.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-reply-to: <19990219085444.A1362@wogglebug.cygnus.com> (message from Michael Meissner on Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:54:44 -0500) Subject: Re: [ppc-dev] Summary: Restructuring Efforts Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au References: <36CCB670.CE42A873@mailserv.rz.fh-muenchen.de> <199902190612.RAA00610@tango.anu.edu.au> <19990219085444.A1362@wogglebug.cygnus.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michael Meissner wrote: > Why do people keep mentioning a second tree, and not using something like a > branch off of the main cvs tree? Within egcs, we use branches for separate > development tasks (1.1.x and mainline). In fact right now, I have my own > branch for the PowrerPC compiler changes. Two reasons, the main one being access control, the secondary one being that we may want to have the two trees maintained by different people in different places. I don't think having two trees, keeping track of the differences, and merging changes from one to another is a big problem. I have this Tk-based tool called `dirdiff' for visualizing the differences between up to 5 trees. If anyone wants to have a look at it, it's in ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/linux-pmac/misc/dirdiff. It's still a little rough around the edges and it doesn't have any documentation, but it may be useful. Paul. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]