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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elpa packages and Makefiles
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:24:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m261ft2x5g.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10760.1412793114.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:31:21 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 

SM> The reason I prefer doing that is because I think I know what "git
SM> merge" does, whereas I have difficulty understanding what "git
SM> read-tree" or "git subtree" does.

`git subtree' is nice when you want subsequent resyncs of the same tree.

It can maintain a bijective commit ID mapping between the source repo
and the destination repo.

Ted


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-12  3:26 Elpa packages and Makefiles Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-12 14:55 ` Grant Rettke
2014-07-13  1:39   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-18 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-19  0:26   ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-19  1:24   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-01 10:11   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-01 13:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 14:50       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 17:06       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-08  3:32       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-08 18:31         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10760.1412793114.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-09 13:24           ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-10-09 14:40             ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <mailman.10797.1412865640.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-09 15:40               ` Ted Zlatanov

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