On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernie Innocenti<ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > On 06/09/09 16:17, Jason Merrill wrote: >> Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> On 06/07/09 12:40, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>>> Is this mirror an independent conversion from the infradead one (i.e., I >>>> have to throw away the repo and re-download a full repo? Or can I reuse >>>> objects)? >>> >>> It's an independent mirror, and I wouldn't recommend switching to it yet. >>> >>> There are permissions problems, and I might end up rsyncing the whole >>> infradead repository rather than fixing things locally. >> >> Please please do *not* rsync the infradead repository. The repository >> on gcc.gnu.org is set up so that I can switch back and forth between >> pulling from git and using git-svn directly; the infradead repository is >> not. >> >> For one thing, the infradead repository uses svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc, >> which makes it impossible to use git-svn to check in changes; the >> gcc.gnu.org git repository uses svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc, as is >> right and proper. Also the remotes are in a different place from where >> git-svn puts them, though I suppose that's easy enough to adjust when >> fetching. > > I won't re-create the repository from scratch, then. > > Though I would still need an updated version of git to enable lots of > branches and tags without wasting too much hard disk space. > > Can a sourceware admin please install (or build) git 1.6.3.x? If there > are concerns of breaking other things, I could install a local copy in > ~/bin. +overseers
I don't see a problem doing this (we definitely don't want two versions installed), but there are real live git projects on sourceware so we should be a bit careful.
