From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bazaar to Git status Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:41 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140818031141.GA9519@thyrsus.com> References: <20140810205631.GA17907@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408331529 25295 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2014 03:12:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 05:12:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJDMZ-0007b3-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:12:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJDMY-0005bp-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJDMI-0005bk-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJDME-0005MB-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39082 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJDMD-0005M3-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66D7D38065E; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173733 Archived-At: Paul Michael Reilly : > Eric, are you aware of Stefan's wait state on Git support of > vc-find-conflicted-file and is this something you are inclined to punt on? I've merged a patch that should work. It isn't currently practical for me to test it, but troubleshooting should be easy once we have a live use case. > What I would like to do is grab hold of workflow documentation, assuming it > exists, on how to use the converted git repo to build from current > development sources and test it out on a few Mac systems. Go right ahead. > Sounds like four > pieces need to come together: 1) 24.4 gets released, 2) > vc-find-conflicted-file has Stefan satisfied, 3) workflow documentation is > updated and 4) you have pushed the button after being convinced it is time. > 1) is in progress, 2) and 3) are in an unknown state, and 4) appears to be > ready. It would be good to get more insight into plans, if any, to address > 2) and 3). 2) As I said above, the code is integrated and ready for testing. It may just work; if not, troubleshooting should be easy once the giot repo is live. 3) is done. Months ago now. I do not know of any blockers for the cutover. I have a not4 that says * Work with hydra-users mailing list to update hydra build config. but I don't recall what hydra is. There are no other work items that cannot obviously wait until post-transition. -- Eric S. Raymond