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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 19909@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19909: [PATCH] Error out if with-file-notification=w32 is specified on cygwin
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:35:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMTcmTctr8mdZTSJ=Bzkn74ZvD9cjDf5VmVMMp5QpuJ5S_dQ_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F221B8.4050909@cornell.edu>

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On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:

> On 2/28/2015 2:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:44:38 -0500
>>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>> CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>
>>>  No, I meant your reasons for specifying --with-file-notification=w32.
>>>> You could only bump into this issue if you specified it, AFAIU.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Based on http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19909#36, I think
>>> he specified --with-file-notification=w32 because he wanted file
>>> notification and didn't know he could use gfile.
>>>
>>
>>
Exactly


> Isn't gfile the default for Cygwin?
>>
>
> Yes.  (Of course, the builder has to have the appropriate glib development
> package installed, or else file notification won't actually be used.)
>
>  I'm inclined to go ahead with the revised patch he submitted in the
>>> above URL.  I'll commit it (with Robert as author and with the change
>>> marked as a "tiny change") if that's OK with you, Eli.
>>>
>>
>> If that's what Cygwin users want, fine with me.
>>
>
> I personally don't care, but Robert requested it, and I don't see any harm
> in it.  So I'll go ahead as soon as I hear back from him as to how he wants
> his name shown.
>
>  1. Shouldn't the name in the ChangeLog be "Robert Pluim" instead of
>>> "rpluim" to match all the other entries?
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it matters when there's no assignment on file.
>>
>
I'd prefer "Robert Pluim" but it's not a big deal. It does show that
there's a variable somewhere that I haven't set correctly though, since
that ChangeLog entry should never have said "rpluim"


>
>>  2. I tested making a git commit with
>>>
>>>     --author="Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>  (tiny change)"
>>>
>>> but git stripped away the "(tiny change)" part.  What should I do to get
>>> "tiny change" into the git history?  Maybe it's not so important now,
>>> because I can put it into the ChangeLog, but I'm thinking about the
>>> future, when ChangeLogs are automatically generated.
>>>
>>
>> The projects I know of use
>>
>>    Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
>>
>> on a separate line in the log message.  You will see that I already
>> used that in Emacs, at least once.
>>
>
I'll test the waters with my future employers as to copyright assignment,
and this discussion will hopefully not have to happen again :)

Regards

Robert

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-20  9:47 bug#19909: [PATCH] Error out if with-file-notification=w32 is specified on cygwin Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 10:19   ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 10:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 14:16       ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 15:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 15:46           ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 16:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 16:44               ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 17:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 16:15           ` Ken Brown
2015-02-20 17:06             ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-20 17:18             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-27 22:25               ` Ken Brown
2015-02-28  7:59                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-28 16:32                   ` Ken Brown
2015-02-28 16:41                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-28 16:53                       ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-28 16:56                       ` Robert Pluim
2015-02-28 17:57                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-28 18:44                           ` Ken Brown
2015-02-28 19:14                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-28 20:14                               ` Ken Brown
2015-03-02  9:35                                 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2015-03-02 14:05                                   ` Ken Brown
2015-03-02 14:06 ` bug#19909: closed (Re: bug#19909: [PATCH] Error out if with-file-notification=w32 is specified on cygwin) GNU bug Tracking System

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