From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: casual contributing with git Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 19:05:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87mujb2369.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87y333f3s6.fsf@mbork.pl> <83lfyz837g.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="148243"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 24 19:08:07 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hUDfr-000cQm-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 19:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUDfq-0003mq-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 13:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUDfe-0003lf-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 13:07:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUDfd-0000gI-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 13:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:54544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUDfa-0000cR-DE; Fri, 24 May 2019 13:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A365DE659D; Fri, 24 May 2019 19:07:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JccoGWooWDaH; Fri, 24 May 2019 19:07:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (jeden09-dwa27.echostar.pl [213.156.109.227]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C939E658D; Fri, 24 May 2019 19:07:42 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <83lfyz837g.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236967 Archived-At: On 2019-05-22, at 07:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Marcin Borkowski >> Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 06:48:25 +0200 >> Cc: Emacs developers >> >> >> On 2019-05-19, at 03:41, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> >> >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:51, Stephen Leake 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