From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:38:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878wh9qaku.fsf@sphinx.net.ru> <83praic5r5.fsf@gnu.org> <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251452363 19943 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 09:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 11:39:16 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 1MgxvP-0003Hq-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50615 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgxvO-0003Ob-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgxv3-0003J6-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgxuy-0003Hs-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59654 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgxuy-0003Hl-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:46237 helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgxuw-0003V6-45; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id n7S9cf6Z003907; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:38:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:04:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:114737 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Actually, I don't have a good idea what I will need, because for that > I would need to study git at least to some degree, won't I? What's > below is just the beginning. Indeed. > >> - make local copy of remote repos >> - hack >> - fetch changes from upstream >> - provide patch for emacs-devel to ridicule >> >> which is about 3 scm commands. It seems to be a small investment even >> for the interim. >> >> I'm sure, though, that you need to do more complex things I'm missing. >> >> Now that I use git I do more stuff like local branching, having several >> remote branches to sync with, etc, but one doesn't have to do those kinds >> of things. > > First, you are probably working on GNU/Linux most of the time. By > contrast, most of my Emacs development is on MS-Windows, where > installing git is an adventure at best. Last time I looked (I'd love > to learn things changed since then), most of git were Unixy shell > scripts, which means I will need to install Cygwin or MSYS. Each one > of these needs its own share of learning, tweaking, and getting used > to. If I had this kind of time, I'd probably install GNU/Linux ion > the first place. > > Then I already have several local sandboxes: the trunk, the 23_1_RC > branch, a sandbox where I build and test the DOS port, and now the > bidi branch. It's confusing as it is already; learning how to do that > with 2 new tools (Bzr and git) will take more time -- time I don't > have. I prefer not to do that if there's a good alternative. Yes I understand your situation better now. If it would be any help I could send you a pre-installed Gnu/Linux machine, but I suppose getting a machine with a pre-installed distro is not the main time sink you're worried about. -- Joakim Verona