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Re: Add git mirror for binutils?
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- Cc: Jie Zhang <jie dot zhang at analog dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:34:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: Add git mirror for binutils?
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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
>>> H.J. (or whoever can say, with authority),
>>>
>>> Do you want to keep all of the existing branches?
>>> Are you interested in making any meta-data (authorship or log) changes,
>>> e.g., if git commits should reflect an author different from the
>>> cvs committer?
>>>
>>
>> I only speak for myself. I only care about trunk and I'd like to keep all
>> commit history so that git blame works correctly.
>
> Here's a first cut:
>
> ? ?git clone git://sources.redhat.com/git/binutils
>
> Determining which subdirectories of src/ to include
> and ensuring that the mirroring process does the right
> thing with those, and only those, was a little tricky.
> Please ensure that all of the required parts (and no more)
> are included in a git clone.
>
> Also, while all branches *should* be included, I have made
> no attempt to compare the contents of any git/cvs branches.
> If you care about a particular branch, please ensure at least
> that the same files are on the head of each.
It works for me on Linux/x86-64. But it hasn't been updated.
Can you fix that?
Thanks.
--
H.J.