Vendor branches, tracking sources and creating patches

2000-12-20 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I think I have this sorted out in my head but I need to run it past some people who are "in the know", so to speak. We are planning to create a new GCC backend, and as there will be multiple developers it all needs to be in CVS. We need to be able to: 1) update the version of gcc we are

Re: Vendor branches, tracking sources and creating patches

2000-12-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:37:44PM -, Ross Burton wrote: [they need to use CVS to track the GCC distribution while making local changes] I think this can be achieved if we take, for example, gcc 2.95.2 and import into our tree as such: tar zxvf gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz ; cd gcc-2.95.2 cvs