On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:51 +0200, Volker Reichelt wrote: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg00625.html: > > > In preparation for the future transition to subversion, I've written > > some code to merge the old-gcc repository into current mainline. I > > would like to see this merged repository used as the basis for the > > conversion to subversion. The advantage is that it provides revision > > history back to 1992, when the gcc sources were first put into a > > source code control system. (At the time, it was RCS. Before 1992 > > the source code control system was emacs numbered backup files.) > > > > Since I just wrote this code, I'd like any feedback that people care > > to give on the correctness and usability of the generated repository. > > People with SSH access to sourceware should be able to access the > > temporary merged repository by doing > > cvs -d :ext:gcc.gnu.org:/pool/ian/repo co gcc > > [snip] > > > By the way, in case anybody asks, I will not be doing this merge > > before the subversion conversion, because it changes all the CVS > > revision numbers and thus breaks all existing working directories. > > What will happen to the (revision number based) hyperlinks to patches > in Bugzilla and the gcc-cvs mailing list archive like the following: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/reg-stack.c.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.188&r2=1.189
> Will they still point to something useful? We will keep a read-only version of the cvs repository around along with cvsweb so that the links still work. At least, that is the current plan.
