From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git pre-commit hook for merges (WAS: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:52 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <513c116f-2af5-19de-697d-583961b44e2e@cs.ucla.edu> References: <955c464e-5833-10fd-9c02-d7edda70e488@cs.ucla.edu> <23200c63-7454-12fa-e5d2-e2f236754e85@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492063987 7328 195.159.176.226 (13 Apr 2017 06:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:13:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cc: martin rudalics , emacs-devel , Andreas Schwab , Yuri Khan To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 13 08:12:59 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cyY03-0001iQ-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyY08-00015l-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyXz5-00014O-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyXz2-0004hQ-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyXz2-0004hI-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2017 02:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370781604F1; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id FqOhtzKanCX1; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAC21604F2; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Vw_Lay6TpnMw; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.188.248]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B9691604F1; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213926 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky wrote: >>> I wonder if it would be more convenient to control >>> this by a ./configure option instead though. >> >> This all happens well before 'configure' is created. > It does now, but does it need to? It's better if './configure' does not mess with Git settings, yes. './configure' has always been intended to operate independently of whether the source is under version control, and to operate after all the autotools have been run to set things up.