From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: casual contributing with git
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 19:05:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mujb2369.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfyz837g.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2019-05-22, at 07:31, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 06:48:25 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>>
>> On 2019-05-19, at 03:41, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:51, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Workspaces are cheap; I keep a full checkout of master, and one of each
>> >> branch I'm working on, at all times.
>> >
>> > Is that the recommended way ?
>>
>> Of course not! (At least, not as far as Git goes in general - but
>> I don't think there is some Emacs idiosyncrasy here.)
>
> In a way, there is: the branches in Emacs tend to diverge very
> quickly, so after a while, if you switch branches in the same tree,
> the builds become very long, and worse: you need to bootstrap each
> time to avoid problems in the built Emacs. It quickly becomes very
> inconvenient.
Thanks for the info, good to know!
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-24 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-19 1:41 casual contributing with git Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-19 2:08 ` Amin Bandali
2019-05-19 2:30 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-20 4:23 ` Amin Bandali
2019-05-19 4:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-05-22 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-24 17:05 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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