On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:56:01AM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote: >Peter Barada wrote: >>Does the uberbaum tree exist on savanna, or is it only on >>sources.redhat.com? If so, what is the procedure for accessing it? > >I would not recommend use of uberbaum. There are some old-time >ex-Cygnus hackers that use it, because it gives an environment familiar >to the one we used inside Cygnus. For everyone else, it probably causes >more problems than it solves. > >uberbaum exists only on sourceware.org. It is a symlink tree that tries >to make two CVS repositories look like one. Because it is a fake tree, >you can not use it for checking in patches. You can only use it for >checkouts. Because few people use it, when it breaks, it may be a while >before it is fixed. Personally, I find it easier to just check out the >different trees and then create a local symlink tree.
Actually, I use uberbaum to check in changes to gcc, gdb, and cygwin. If there was breakage then it would be fixed like any other problem in the repository - send email to overseers. Using it is pretty straightforward - /cvs/uberbaum is the root. However, since gcc is moving to subversion, it doesn't make any sense to get used to using it right now. cgf
