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: commit-msg hook Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:17:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbh2elso.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4m0tgac.fsf@gnu.org> <55288A2D.5030809@cs.ucla.edu> <83d23bruui.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yff0pl.fsf@gnu.org> <838udzf0ix.fsf@gnu.org> <552916C9.9070900@yandex.ru> <834momg2lq.fsf@gnu.org> <55293A1B.7030500@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428765505 12668 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2015 15:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 11 17:18:16 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 1YgxAl-00016L-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:18:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgxAk-0001kk-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgxAW-0001kd-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgxAT-0000iG-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgxAT-0000ej-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMN00H00E0L3M00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:17:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMN00HA1EHV6600@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:17:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55293A1B.7030500@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:185293 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:13:31 +0300 > From: Dmitry Gutov > CC: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > (We only need _some_ Emacs, not the latest one.) > > The one that would be in PATH is the master build, but if it breaks, I'd > still like to be able to commit... I think. How is this different from a broken Gawk? > Overall, I think porting the whole commit-msg script from awk (scary!) > to Elisp would be nice, but it will create this new complication. I'm not sure the complication is new. I think we can rely on Emacs being available no less than we rely on Gawk and Perl nowadays. > At the very least, it will involve a new configuration step, to somehow > tell Git which Emacs build to use. I think we could just rely on its being on PATH. All we need is Emacs 23.1 or later.