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Re: Adding GDB branches to your nightly version updates...
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:13:03 +1030
- Subject: Re: Adding GDB branches to your nightly version updates...
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:49:23AM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> The GDB project is going to create the GDB 7.7 release branch fairly
> soon, within the next couple of weeks, I would say. Up until recently,
> the date in GDB's version number was handled directly in GDB, but
> we recently switched to using bfd's version.h instead. Once we cut
> the 7.7 branch, we'll need the date updated on that branch as well.
>
> I am wondering how you'd like to proceed. The simplest would probably
> for you and I to coordinate so that I can let you know when the
> active branch changes.
I'm happy to do that, but don't be surprised at the occasional glitch.
I'm still learning the ropes with git.. For example, I keep two
virgin copies of the repository just for the cron job that updates
version.h in master and binutils-2_24-branch. I'm sure I could do
with just one copy, but cp -al seemed easy at the time. :)
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM