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: ELPA policy Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:58:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83d1vkntzl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <563ABD66.6070700@yandex.ru> <563AC64E.9060105@yandex.ru> <87twp0d2xp.fsf@md5i.com> <563B5E82.8070003@yandex.ru> <83mvuoo1pl.fsf@gnu.org> <8737wggulv.fsf@gmail.com> <83fv0gnxx4.fsf@gnu.org> <87twowfeaf.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447012752 13766 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2015 19:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 19:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 08 20:59:02 2015 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 1ZvW7C-0007aX-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:59:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvW7B-0004L3-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvW6y-0004Kl-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvW6t-0003Fw-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:56736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvW6s-0003Fr-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:58:43 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXI00F00HMKWR00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:58:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXI00B7AI4PA160@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:58:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87twowfeaf.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:193647 Archived-At: > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:04:56 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > How about just using a single repository? ;-) > > > > Seriously, why should they be separate? Submodules still complicate > > things, compared to just having the stuff in the repo. > > I'm not strongly against that. But there are a couple of things that > might be annoying with that: > > - Elpa commits would occasionally flood the git log I'm sure no one actually looks at too many commits at once, only those that are of interest. > - Git operations in both repositories would become even slower than they > are now (as they'd both increase in size). GCC is migrating to Git as we speak, even though it has something like 3-4 times more commits in its history than we do. If they aren't afraid, I don't think we should be.