From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Locks on the Bzr repository Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:32:51 +0200 Message-ID: <877hjj7tx8.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <4C6D56DB.7040703@swipnet.se> <4C6D8EC5.7040901@swipnet.se> <4C6E1F0A.7070506@swipnet.se> <837hjlr78p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkwhtws5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83tymppj62.fsf@gnu.org> <871v9t8klf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83lj81pazq.fsf@gnu.org> <83aaogpcbu.fsf@gnu.org> <19567.50977.609000.549262@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87sk286pv9.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282411996 510 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2010 17:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 19:33:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmrwQ-0007JB-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmrwP-0005in-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46174 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmrwG-0005gv-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmrwF-0003jy-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmrwF-0003jh-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmrwD-0007Dq-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 83.42.13.171 ([83.42.13.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 83.42.13.171 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.42.13.171 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ut7J6mZL916tTPKNuJxKf29ou38= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128982 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: >> Not really (for the workflow advertised by Stephen and Karl.) > > "Stephen" is Stephen Turnbull? Yes. > But he is arguing for unbound branches now. I'm not sure what he is arguing for, because I didn't follow the thread. The workflow he described on the wiki page makes lots of sense and was great to know before too much people learned the hard way why other apparently reasonable workflows are flawed. [snip] > Given the situation, moving to git would seem like a good idea, > because its rebase is trustworthy and should improve matters > enormously. Bzr was chosen not because technical merits, but because political reasons (it is a GNU project.) I don't see Emacs moving to Git anytime soon, no matter how much bzr sucks.