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: VC mode and git Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:09:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83pp7rzvq8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <87384qzxqy.fsf@igel.home> <87h9t4kcaq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427641809 15435 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2015 15:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, schwab@suse.de, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 17:09:54 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 1YcEqP-0007Z3-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:09:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEqO-0001BT-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:09:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEqL-00019Y-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:09:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEqH-000366-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50185) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEqH-00034A-Mf; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLZ00E00BAQXU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:09:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLZ00EBYBFZQ280@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:09:36 +0300 (IDT) 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:184519 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:35 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > =09=09=09=09=09 Karl Fogel and I wrote a modern > > workflow (one which is used successfully by many many developer= s in > > projects using DVCSes), >=20 > Felicitations for them, but why should that be relevant to this iss= ue. > There is a reason why some people like that workflow, and a reason = why > it screwed me. >=20 > =09=09=09 you and Ken'ichi screamed, Eli rewrote it to > > look like CVS. >=20 > Thank you, Eli. You are welcome. But Stephen's version of history is far from what really happened. In particular, the CVS-like workflow was written by =C3=93scar Fuentes, not myself. And the other workflow, the one writ= ten by Karl and Stephen, suggested a bound branch from the get-go, AFAIR (although I cannot prove that now, since the Wiki didn't keep the old versions, and even the Wayback machine only has those instructions since about a year after they were first published).