Re: Adding GDB branches to your nightly version updates...

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

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. :)

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM