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: ELPA commit freeze Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871u5w1tpy.fsf@yandex.ru> <520FA630.8080003@yandex.ru> <5211BBC8.40408@yandex.ru> <52133662.1000900@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377009924 16427 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2013 14:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 20 16:45:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBnBV-0001rn-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBnBV-0008C5-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBnBK-00084G-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBnBD-0003j2-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBnBD-0003ir-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LNT/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBrEfkA6RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LNT/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBrEfkA6RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="22610792" Original-Received: from 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([206.248.179.83]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 Aug 2013 10:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D3CE3AE1E2; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:45:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <52133662.1000900@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:26:58 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162920 Archived-At: > So we could check out the version before externals were introduces, erase > all their respective directories, then apply all commits made to the > "administrative" part of the tree, and then add the subtrees properly. Some > cleanup commits would have to be re-applied, but there's not a lot of them. We could try to do that. I'm far form convinced it's worth the trouble. > If it's too late, I suppose we can live with that, but this way we a) give > up an easy way to sync back, b) accept that we'll see each non-upstream > commit in externally maintained packages's histories twice: once for when > it's made, second after it's cherry-picked, committed to upstream and then > merged back into elpa. Not that "git subtree push" also duplicates the commits. It just automates the process. So, it's only a) that's lost. Stefan