From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNrVB-0004Gg-AM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:25 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNrVA-0004GD-9p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:24 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNrVA-0004GA-3h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:24 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNrV9-0007iN-Mu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:23 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g11so8761921rvb.22 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:20:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <94a0d4530802090720i4e43a2d6r184c89bfa6f6db06@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:20:21 +0200 From: "Felipe Contreras" Subject: Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Blue Swirl , Paul Brook On Feb 9, 2008 2:45 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Blue Swirl wrote: > > > On 2/8/08, Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 21:52:33 Paul Brook wrote: > > > > On Friday 08 February 2008, Rob Landley wrote: > > > > > Grepping through the source code, I can find 3 places where this global > > > > > variable is set (it's initialized to a default value of 1, there's > > > > > a "no-code-copy" command line option that sets it to zero, and then it > > > > > shows up in the test suite once). What I can't find is any code ever > > > > > actually checking or using the value put into this variable.... > > > > > > > > It got ripped out a while back. > > > > > > Any news on the possible cvs->svn migration? I'd submit a cleanup > > > patch to rip out the remaining traces of code_copy_enabled, but the > > > git mirror I follow (git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/qemu.git) hasn't > > > updated in several days so I'm not actually sure it's still there in > > > cvs. > > > > > > Just checked and http://savannah.nongnu.org/svn/?group=qemu isn't > > > there either... > > > > How about git? I'd like to use git bisect. Would there be problems if it > > were possible to commit via more than one interface? > > You mean using nongnu.org's git support? And the cvsserver > emulation, so that CVS people can still access it via CVS? That's an > option, but I do not know if nongnu.org has enabled cvsserver emulation. > > And I'm not a fan of _forcing_ people to switch to another SCM. You can > use git (and even cvsimport yourself, should the public git mirrors lag), > and even svn, as pbrook showed, even if the official upstream stays CVS. Anything but CVS please. SVN is a good option, then people can use their favorite dscm (git-svn, bzr-svn, etc). Right now I can't use qemu because a bug introduced in the last months and with git-bisect I probably would be able to fix it myself. Best regards. -- Felipe Contreras