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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repairing the elpa branch
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:22:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83libvr863.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fw8v7vwv0c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:10:27 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > The downside of this is, of course, that all the revision-ids will
> > change (the hash part of the revid's displayed by bzr will be
> > different), so users will have to abandon their current elpa checkouts
> > and clone a new branch, then copy their local commits to the new
> > branch.
> 
> This will be an inevitable side-effect of whatever we do (well, all the
> revids after r170's anyway), if we do anything.

Then I suggest that you use the fast-import method, as it will take
much less time and effort (20 sec overall, on my machine).  I also
think it's much less error-prone, and it retains the merges that
Stefan wanted to preserve.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14  3:25 Repairing the elpa branch Glenn Morris
2013-01-14  4:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14  4:26   ` Chong Yidong
2013-01-14 15:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 15:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-14 17:10       ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-14 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-14 17:28           ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-14 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-14 18:13               ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-14 19:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15  1:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  3:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15  4:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  9:02             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-15 13:39               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15 15:33                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-15 16:26                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 17:38                   ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 18:45                     ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 18:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 20:21                         ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 22:13                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 17:09   ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15  1:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  4:16     ` Glenn Morris

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