From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MELPA and rewriting history for the (git) repo Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:08:31 +0000 Message-ID: <87twlec97k.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87egcjk0b1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455286139 11208 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2016 14:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:08:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 15:08:55 2016 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 1aUEP0-0001ef-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:08:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOz-0005CK-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOk-0005Bq-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOf-0002D1-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:59675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOf-0002CI-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOe-0005fz-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:08:32 +0000 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aUEOd-00070s-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:08:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87egcjk0b1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:29:06 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:199818 Archived-At: For MELPA, I don't think it would make any difference -- I think, it just looks for changes in the hash and if it sees one generates the latest version. It might cause a problem if it uses git update, rather than a fresh clone for each checkout. There are many good reasons not to rebase master, though. Uwe Brauer writes: > Matlab-emacs has moved to a git repo at SF and MELPA points now to that > repo. > > > The question is this: git allows to rewrite history but usually > for a public repo, it is strong advised in the documentation, not to do > so. > > What would happen with the corresponding MELPA packages, if one rewrote > the history? > > Thanks > > Uwe Brauer