time to be serious about dropping CVS

[Pascal Obry]

Christopher,

> I'm a real novice when it comes to git.  Does it allow "merging" two
> separate repositories?  Could we have a separate repository containing
> the configury and libiberty which was shared between gdb/binutils/gcc?

One solution is to use submodule. A submodule is standard Git repository
which is made part of another Git repository. This can be seen a bit
like Subversion externals.

See http://progit.org/book/ch6-6.html

Another solution is to do subtree merging. Both solutions have pro and cons.

See http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html

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