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: Making the tarball with bzr data Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B140ACF.9090808@gmx.de> <874oob955s.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 1259637866 15555 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2009 03:24:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 03:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 04:24:19 2009 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 1NFJLe-0000ni-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:24:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFJLe-0005wK-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFJLY-0005w6-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFJLU-0005vZ-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43714 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFJLT-0005vW-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:43192 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFJLT-0001yb-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:07 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkcFAB8bFEtLd/5a/2dsb2JhbACBTtYXhDEEihk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,318,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50381087" Original-Received: from 75-119-254-90.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.254.90]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 30 Nov 2009 22:24:06 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4D55B80E9; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:24:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:33:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (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:118018 Archived-At: >>> Why can't this setup be done with the already existing files? >> It can, but then you need to know which Bzr revision corresponds to the >> files you have. > In that case wouldn't it be possible to let bzr assume that the my > files are checked out from the current revision and then changed? (As > a separate command of course, for use in those circumstances where it > might make sense.) Yes, it'd be possible. I know of no VCS that allows you to do that (including CVS, which has had moe yeqars than any other to provide such a feature), so I think it's just much too low on the list of priorities. Stefan