From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-update for bzr etc. Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:20:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y68m7kdh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lj4mk2e5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxp2bd12.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87k4k6c738.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8739qtw9le.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874ob8caqi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290530489 16194 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2010 16:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 17:41:25 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvvo-0002BW-EW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKvvn-0005XC-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:41:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37174 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKvdX-0005CN-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvcP-0005zT-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:55427 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvbT-0005jX-4B; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:20:23 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhMJALp460xFxKB0/2dsb2JhbAChaX1yviGFSwSEWo1q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,242,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="83336123" Original-Received: from 69-196-160-116.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.160.116]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 23 Nov 2010 11:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6245C660BB; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:20:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <874ob8caqi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:37:09 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:133061 Archived-At: >> I remain confused about what the intended use of "bzr pull" is. As far >> as I can tell, it's only used if someone wants a mirror of another >> branch that is never modified. But that seems like the less important >> case. > Yes and yes. Even the bzr developers admit that it's mainly there to > have symmetry with "push". I didn't realize it. So maybe "bzr merge --pull" is a better choice, although it will choose a different branch. Stefan