From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:58:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83a93tj0c9.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415977144 13431 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2014 14:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 15:58:56 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 1XpIKs-0007rI-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:58:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIKs-00058y-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIKZ-00058q-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIKO-0004WZ-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:58:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIKO-0004WD-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF100H00AM8W100@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:58:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF100H1NAXAYC00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:58:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:177087 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:39:52 +0100 > > To use git for Emacs development, you really kinda need merge-changelog > and git-new-workdir. The former is a C file also included in gnulib, so > I would assume that that's not a licensing problem. > > git-new-workdir is a shell script, and I can't find the license after > looking around for ten seconds. > > Anyway, I don't think it makes much sense to make Emacs developers hunt > around for these things themselves Those who are on MS-Windows don't need to hunt for git-merge-changelog farther than this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/git-merge-changelog-0.1-2-w32-bin.zip/download As for git-new-workdir, it isn't included in msysgit, and I wonder whether it's because it somehow relies on features not available on Windows.