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: adding branches to bzr? Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:21:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87tyup1nxo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87y6k1k7zd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zl4hocac.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263431596 5818 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 01:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 02:13:08 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 4.50) id 1NVEGq-0007nO-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:13:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVEGr-00087S-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVEGm-00086f-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVEGh-00085Z-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43463 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVEGh-00085S-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:42962) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVEGg-0006D0-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:12:58 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2C28214; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:12:49 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2AAA11A2C00; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:21:24 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87zl4hocac.fsf@red-bean.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:119948 Archived-At: Karl Fogel writes: > Chong Yidong writes: > >My understanding is that there's negligible cost to adding multiple bzr > >branches to the central repo (in terms of, say, server resources or bzr > >log output). Is that right? If so, I guess it won't hurt to start > >making branches for the features lined up for Emacs 24 (which we'll > >begin concentrating on in a couple months, once 23.2 draws closer to > >release). > > If they're all in a shared repository without working trees on Savannah, > (which I believe to be the case), then branches are very cheap, yes. Caveat: Joakim must have branched from one of the branches in the shared repository. Since his branches are fairly old AIUI, that probably is too much to hope for as a side effect of the CVS->git->bzr process. I'm not sure how easy it would be to preserve his git history, but if he doesn't care much about that (presumably it's in a ChangeLog or he can generate one from git log), the branch-from- Emacs-of-Christmas-present-with-One-Big-Patch approach isn't too bad for moderate-sized, focused changes like the ones he mentions.