From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git to Bzr - what works? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:16:51 +0900 Message-ID: <87boicoklo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <5029AB54.8020804@dancol.org> <83fw7pjqav.fsf@gnu.org> <877gt1p7s9.fsf@olor.terpri.org> <837gt0kgyk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345004225 2106 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 04:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , BT Templeton , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 06:17:06 2012 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 1T1V2X-0002DX-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:17:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1V2W-0004iN-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:17:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1V2U-0004i6-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1V2T-000445-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:60030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1V2R-00043d-JD; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4CE970820; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:16:51 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7290912905E; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:16:51 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" b4715fcbe001 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:152536 Archived-At: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina writes: > I generated the patches from git repo with git format-patch, modified > paths in patch files with sed to match Emacs file structure, and then > used bzr git-apply with no problems, except This sounds reasonable (it should be unnecessary, but one can script what Bazaar didn't think necessary to do), but > for the fact that I had to create a commit adding a blank > lisp/progmodes/python.el after deleting the old one in order for > bzr git-apply to apply patches successfully. IMO, this is hardly a "no problems, except" problem. This is a show-stopper, unacceptable even the worker doesn't mind doing it by hand. This makes the "blame" command useless for investigating the provenance of any code that appears in the deleted-readded file. You might get by with this in other projects, but Emacs cares greatly about such issues for legal reasons. It also makes one wonder about Bazaar, but that's a whole other issue. Steve