Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:37:46 -0400 > > Cc: > > > > I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. > > Can you tell why? Paul already wrote: "I would like some more advance

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-10-13 16:37Z, Paul Smith wrote: > > I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, > Savannah supports (in addition to CVS) GNU arch and GIT. If SVN were > supported I'd probably go for that, because (a) it has great support for > alternative OSs like Windows, etc.

possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-14 Thread Zhongxing Xu
Hi, In function library_search(), libpatterns and buf is malloced memory in line 1486 and 1553 respectively. They are not freed. Is this true? - Zhongxing Xu ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:40 +0800, Zhongxing Xu wrote: > In function library_search(), > libpatterns and buf is malloced memory in line 1486 and 1553 > respectively. > They are not freed. > Is this true? Correct, they are not freed--but no, this is not a memory leak. These variables are declare

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Can you tell why? The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re renaming, removing, and reorganizing files. However, it's not a critical issue; I've lived with it for this long. The other problems CVS has (poor branch/merge, no ato

Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-14 Thread Jon Grant
Paul Smith wrote on 14/10/07 17:39: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:40 +0800, Zhongxing Xu wrote: In function library_search(), libpatterns and buf is malloced memory in line 1486 and 1553 respectively. They are not freed. Is this true? Correct, they are not freed--but no, this is not a memory le

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:22:56PM +0200, Ram??n Garc??a wrote: >In my opinion, distributed control version systems like GIT or >Mercurial are the way to go in the long term. In Sun all the >repositories are (or are being migrated to) Mercurial. > >There is only one serious limitation with GIT: ea

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:57:20 -0400 > > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Can you tell why? > > The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re renaming, removing, > and reorganizin

Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 18:33 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: > Do they get free'd up when make exits? No. It's quite difficult to do this since the variables are static and so are only visible within that function. In order to free them we'd have to add them to some kind of global free list that could be

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-14 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Oct 14, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-make@gnu.org Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:57:20 -0400 On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Can you tell why? The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re