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Re: [Fwd: Cron <gdbadmin@sources> sh $HOME/ss/do-all-gdb-snapshots]
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Cc: Brian Youmans <3diff at gnu dot org>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:56:38 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cron <gdbadmin@sources> sh $HOME/ss/do-all-gdb-snapshots]
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> FYI, you were right, CVS doesn't like you! :=)
Probably my fault, at least to some extent, but my opinion that the
CVS has several counter-intuitive aspects in its UI has until now
fallen on deaf ears (yes, I actually spoke to some of the CVS
developers and was told that I didn't understand ``the CVS way'').
Anyway, how do you add a new file on a branch?
What happened to me is that I had no problems with "cvs add" on the
trunk, followed by "cvs ci" on the trunk. On the branch, I think I
mistakenly typed "cvs ci" first, without having fdl.texi present in
the directory, and was told that ``a newly born fdl.texi
disappeared''. I then remembered that I missed "cvs add" and did
that, only to be told that ``someone else already added it''. After
that, "cvs ci" refused to work, demanding that I do "cvs add" first...
What am I missing?
One of the things I can never remember is when do you have to use the
"-r TAG" switch with CVS commands issued on the branch. So I tend to
always use that switch, which is perhaps incorrect with "cvs add".
> Should the FDL and ``Free Software Needs Free Documentation'' blurbs be
> added to the GDB Internals Manual?
I asked Richard Stallman, and he replied that it's okay to have only
one FDL in a collection of documents that are distributed together.
The same situation exists with Emacs, so we are in a good company ;-)
> Also, should the main GDB manual include a printed copy of the GPL.
I don't know. In general, GDB is considered one of the few
``important packages'' that are part of GNU software, so having the
GPL in the manual is probably a good idea. GCC, for example, does
have such a section. And we even have a section for it ("Free
Software"), which now just tells what the GPL is.