From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 08:59:06 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87mtzt6qhf.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9eg4gm5.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8k7yt7n.fsf@gnu.org> <87ima56h1a.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Andrea Corallo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15428"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Kangas , bandali@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 29 10:00:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kjIYp-0003sU-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:59:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46286 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjIYo-0008Iu-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:59:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjIYC-0007pf-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:59:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mab.sdf.org ([205.166.94.33]:35562 helo=ma.sdf.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjIY8-000820-0i; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:59:20 -0500 Original-Received: from akrl by ma.sdf.org with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kjIXy-0007H3-Mm; Sun, 29 Nov 2020 08:59:06 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:21:51 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.33; envelope-from=akrl@sdf.org; helo=ma.sdf.org X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259993 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: [...] > Could you explain to me what that means? I know about branches in git. > Normally a branch will contain a modified version of the program > that is in master. This is how is often used, but a git branch does not have to necessarily share the root commit with master (or any other branch). I believe this kind of branch is called 'orphan'. Andrea