From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:38:00 +0200 Message-ID: <837ef2cqdz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <27085.1547770683@alto> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547800566 8007 195.159.176.226 (18 Jan 2019 08:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 18 09:36:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gkPdA-0001uI-8w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:36:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkPfH-0005N7-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkPfB-0005Mo-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkPf9-0007Ym-CH; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:38:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3882 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gkPf8-0008AF-UP; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:38:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <27085.1547770683@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:18:03 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232454 Archived-At: > From: Mike Kupfer > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:18:03 -0800 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > When I unpack an Emacs tarball, I usually check it into a fresh > > > Mercurial repo before building. > > > > Interesting. I wonder why you do that. > > It's so I can apply in-progress patches using Mercurial Queues (MQ). > > > To me, if I wanted to have a backing VCS, I'd start from a `git clone` > > rather than a tarball. > > Maybe there's an easy way to manage this with Git, but I don't see one. Does the below give any useful ideas? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/952651/git-equivalent-to-hg-mq