From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recent changes to org files
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:57:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvprz6zm1w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28x5ukb9m.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Mon\, 22 Oct 2007 18\:57\:57 -0400")
>> When you install changes to org files, will you please look at the actual
>> diffs before you do so, and only apply the bits that make sense?
> Hmm... I'm just installing what the author distributes. It was never
> mentioned to me that the Emacs developers might be making changes directly to
> his files without exporting those changes back to his own sources.
> Perhaps it would be better if I left it to the author to merge any Emacs CVS
> changes into his code and then check them in directly, rather than posting the
> contents of his new releases verbatim to CVS. What do you think, Carsten?
To me the rule goes as follows: I only install patches, not files.
That usually takes core of those problems: if the author's version disagrees
with the CVS version I get a conflict when I try to apply the patch.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-22 22:28 recent changes to org files Glenn Morris
2007-10-22 22:57 ` John Wiegley
2007-10-23 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-23 9:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 9:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 10:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-23 10:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-23 10:36 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 11:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-23 11:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 11:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-23 11:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 12:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-23 20:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 11:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-23 11:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 11:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-24 2:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-23 12:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-24 2:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 20:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-24 2:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 3:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-29 7:30 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-29 22:21 ` John Wiegley
2007-10-30 6:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-23 10:30 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-23 2:11 ` Miles Bader
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