From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Kupfer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:08:47 -0800 Message-ID: <11578.1547946527@alto> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ciao.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ciao.gmane.org 1547946538 219903 195.159.176.228 (20 Jan 2019 01:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ciao.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 20 02:08:56 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gl1bY-000vB4-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2019 02:08:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gl1bh-0006Ev-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gl1bc-0006Ee-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gl1bb-0007wm-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from shell1.rawbw.com ([198.144.192.42]:49597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gl1bb-0007vq-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from alto (96-95-200-133-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [96.95.200.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell1.rawbw.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id x0K18l9k076100 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:08:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.rawbw.com: Host 96-95-200-133-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [96.95.200.133] claimed to be alto In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:01:43 -0500." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6+git; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 26.1.90 Content-ID: <11577.1547946527.1@alto> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 198.144.192.42 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232519 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > > With MQ the workflow is pretty simple: > > > > 1- unpack the tarball > > 2- create the repo and commit the unpacked files > > 3- pull the patches from their repo > > 4- apply the patches ("hg qpush -a") > > 5- build > > [ The step 0 being "download the tarball". ] > > Hmm... ignoring the issue of Mercurial -vs- Git, the equivalent using > the VCS would be: > > 0- clone from the remote repository to a local "bare" repository. > 1- clone from that local repository > 2- do nothing > 3- pull the patches from their repo > 4- apply the patches > 5- build Yeah, if all I were doing was applying static patches, there would be less benefit to using MQ. But MQ helps with the tedium of managing a patch repo as I refine the patches. (And I'm probably biased, since I've been using Mercurial for over 10 years, but I only started using Git when Emacs moved to it.) > (I've used Git to access Mercurial repositories and it works OK, > but is significantly slower on large repositories, haven't tried the > other direction). Sometime a few years ago I used a Mercurial extension to access a Git repo. I had pretty much the same experience: it worked okay but was kinda slow. I don't know if that extension is still available or maintained. cheers, mike