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Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?


From: Felipe Contreras
Subject: Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:20:21 +0200

On Feb 9, 2008 2:45 PM, Johannes Schindelin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
> > On 2/8/08, Rob Landley <address@hidden> 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




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