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: Converted git repository available for review Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:34 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140322184734.GA2704@thyrsus.com> References: <20140321200042.236863805FB@snark.thyrsus.com> <532CE0B7.3010309@cs.ucla.edu> <20140322030017.GA29313@thyrsus.com> <532D057D.9050305@cs.ucla.edu> <20140322042921.GA29817@thyrsus.com> <532DA4BB.9070301@cs.ucla.edu> 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 1395514060 30810 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2014 18:47:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 22 19:47:50 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 1WRQxP-0007z8-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:47:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRQxP-0008Po-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRQxI-0008PZ-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRQxD-0002hS-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:35138 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WRQxD-0002gy-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 11757380677; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:47:35 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <532DA4BB.9070301@cs.ucla.edu> 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:170810 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > Perhaps rather than delve into this too much, how about a different > idea. Currently people are using both bzr and git to access Emacs > repositories, so they've tuned the .bzrignore and .gitignore files > to match what they want from the different repository backends. So > why not leave these files alone? When we switch from bzr+git to > just git, we can remove the .bzrignore file. This would be simpler > than rewriting history, would be easier for everybody to understand, > and would be less likely to go wrong. Easy enough to do, but with one possible cost. We might not get a happy resuly for revisions that have *only* .bzrignore files, that is before .gitignire files were added. -- Eric S. Raymond