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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On committing significant and/or controversial changes (was: My resignation from Emacs development)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:04:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y11bm6oq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN+1HboB20xBWPfVrB7KNqtAPds7wsPAXpyvFD+YQcEdLkithg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Ship Mints on Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:47:22 -0500)

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:47:22 -0500
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Considering how cheap git branches are, I would add that contributors could create a branch with their
> potentially controversial changes committed in the branch for people to better appreciate vs. users
> speculatively applying patches in their own private branches.

Branches are "cheap" to create, but are "expensive" because too many
active branches tend to increase the probability of mistakes when
people push changes to the wrong branch or merge from/to the wrong
branch.

Branches also make it a bit harder to track changes people install.

So I don't think I like this proposal for changing our procedures.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-22 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-20 15:13 My resignation from Emacs development Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-20 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-20 16:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-11-21  6:22   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-21 10:05     ` Christopher Dimech
2024-11-21 11:23       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-21 11:40         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-21 10:29   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-21 12:26     ` Christopher Dimech
2024-11-20 16:42 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-20 17:04 ` tomas
2024-11-20 21:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-11-21  2:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-21 12:34   ` Tree-sitter maturity (was: My resignation from Emacs development) Peter Oliver
2024-11-21 13:01   ` My resignation from Emacs development Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-21 13:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-21 14:29       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-22  0:01         ` Po Lu
2024-11-22  7:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22  8:14             ` Robert Pluim
2024-11-22  8:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22 23:59               ` Po Lu
2024-11-21 16:29       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-22  5:35     ` Adam Porter
2024-11-22  7:24       ` Madhu
2024-11-22  8:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22  9:26           ` Madhu
2024-11-22 12:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22 12:40           ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-22 13:06           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-22 13:39             ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-22 14:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-22 10:57       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-22 23:19         ` Adam Porter
2024-11-22 15:36     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-22 17:48       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-21  5:59 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-22 11:36   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-22 11:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-21 13:39 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-21 19:01   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-21 19:19     ` Christopher Dimech
2024-11-21 19:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-21 19:40 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-21 23:57 ` Po Lu
2024-11-22 17:26 ` On committing significant and/or controversial changes (was: My resignation from Emacs development) Ihor Radchenko
2024-11-22 17:47   ` Ship Mints
2024-11-22 19:04     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-11-22 19:01   ` On committing significant and/or controversial changes Eli Zaretskii

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