Re: [Bug-gnulib] $Id$

[Jim Meyering]

Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> However, once things sync up enough, I'll have to find a way
>> to make my coreutils stuff share the gnulib repository -- e.g.,
>> so that when I tag a coreutils release, it also tags the ,v files
>> in gnulib.
>
> We've tried to avoid this so far - Emacs and regex are the only who do
> this right now.  The problems are that 1) CVS sucks for security for
> controlling who can update and 2) It means that we'd also have to
> generate ChangeLogs if we wanted a complete one.
>
> I understand that `subversion' solves some of these problems - but I
> don't know if the plan is to switch to it or not.  I'm out of the loop
> on that now.

Ok.  It's no big deal.
Eventually things will stabilize, and now that I've
mostly stopped making changes first in coreutils/lib, merging
will be a lot less common;  it'll soon be just a matter of pulling
in deltas from gnulib.