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: New branch Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87aavyt3u1.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y6jhstl4.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264730140 693 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 01:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 02:55:33 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 1Nag56-0003Ms-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:55:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nag56-0002ip-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nag51-0002iS-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nag4w-0002fw-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36324 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nag4w-0002fp-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:26080 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nag4w-0000Dg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArkEAIfOYUtFpaAe/2dsb2JhbACBNNgghD0Eilc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,364,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="54794680" Original-Received: from 69-165-160-30.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.160.30]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2010 20:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0F057700F3; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y6jhstl4.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:22:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:120623 Archived-At: > First: mirrors will suddenly appear as diverged branches. Hopefully No, check again: the branches move strictly forward, mirrors should be just fine. The only potential issue is whether the "mainline history" is preserved (see recent discussion about that). >> When I tried to do that, I bumped into the problem that I can't have >> a symlink "trunk" pointing to the "emacs-23" branch (because >> bzr.sv.gnu.org's http server doesn't honor symlinks). > I don't see how symlinks could help here. I want/need a stable name to refer to "the branch where development takes place". So if that branch can be emacs-23 for a while and emacs-24 later, I need something like symlinks in order to be able to have trunk point to emacs-23 first and emacs-24 later. Stefan