From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:29:23 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080105152923.GN30869@thyrsus.com> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080102121745.GD17588@thyrsus.com> <20080104124545.GD16402@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199547069 6401 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 15:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@snark.thyrsus.com To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 16:31:27 2008 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 1JBAzd-0002ws-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:31:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAzG-0002BT-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxb-0001Cx-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxa-0001Ba-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxa-0001BG-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBAxP-0006GB-HS; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 4933141C316; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:29:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:86179 Archived-At: Richard Stallman : >> The "current sources" is generally going to be one of the repo tip revisions >> packaged into a tarball by a release manager. This is not a VCS operation. > > That applies if/when you make a release. But what about between relesaes? > Currently we recommend that people "build the source from CVS", and we > don't say "from the trunk" because that is a general convention of CVS > usage. > > If we used git, what convention would replace that? Would we have to > establish our own? Would we need to maintain a file saying which branch > to get and build? If so, I think the operation of adding versions > to that branch would be the real analogue of a CVS commit to the urunk. I don't know the answer to this question in the specific context of git, because I have yet not studied git workflow closely (I will soon). In Mercurial, you'd say: Build from the tip of the branch named "trunk". -- Eric S. Raymond