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: State of the repository conversion Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:54:17 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140319185416.GA25588@thyrsus.com> References: <20140319175124.BCCB3380835@snark.thyrsus.com> <83wqfq82ge.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395255308 18411 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 18:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 19:55:15 2014 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 1WQLdy-0008Pp-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQLdy-00011C-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQLdm-0000ZS-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQLdh-0002uK-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42806 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQLdY-0002s5-9c; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 562DE380835; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83wqfq82ge.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:170569 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > The documentation for git-merge-changelog is available as a large > commentary at the beginning of the source. Also, someone created a > man page out of that commentary and posted it to the gnulib mailing > list a week or two ago. OK. When it has a stable public location I'll add a link to it on the wiki. > > This is not a documentation request, it's a research agenda. > > It was a request to discuss and decide upon the recommended workflow. > Documenting the decision is the easy part. We did something very > similar when we switched from CVS to bzr, and the results are on the > wiki. The current Git wiki page simply repeats what the bzr workflow > said, which is probably sub-optimal, since Git is not bzr. On the other hand, it is the logical place for people to start - the bzr workflow maps over fairly well even though the individual commands have to change. I suspect that if change is required here it will have to evolve from practice rather than beung invented. -- Eric S. Raymond