Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?)

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM, grischka <grishka@gmx.de> wrote:
>> If I already have all the Emacs files locally (possibly with some
>> changes) how do I do to make this a bazaar thing? (This must be the
>> most common situation, or?)
>
> In any case you need to get the official emacs bazaar repository
> first.


Thanks grischka. I believe you, but this seems just crazy to me. What
are the reasons for this limitation? Are there any chances this can be
fixed?


> If you have personal changes, create a branch.
>
> Then, either:
> 1) copy your changed files over the ones in that branch
> 2) commit the resulting change as one single patch.
>
> Or, if you have more than one change and want to have separate
> commits for each, use a merge tool such as WinMerge:
> 1) compare your directory tree with the new development branch
> 2) For each feature:
>   - copy the relevant chunks that affect the feature
>   - commit with some message
>   - repeat 2) until no differences are left.
>
> Then you could publish your branch for others to test or improve.
>
> HTH, grischka
>
>