From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's the status of the emacs' git repo on savannah Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <57ee7e0a-62fd-4785-92d4-baf582562af6@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <87bpp4788s.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244148376 4016 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2009 20:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:46:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 22:46:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCJpE-000502-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:46:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCJpD-0008Tf-TW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:46:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.2.234.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244102786 13461 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2009 08:06:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.2.234.249; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.10, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 grimoire.wyplay.int:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE14) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169712 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64941 Archived-At: Hello, On Jun 4, 9:45=A0am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:22:39 -0700 (PDT), Francis Moreau wrote: > > Can't I use this repo to retrieve pre-release or something like ? > > > In the repo, there are tags such as: EMACS_PRETEST_23_0_92. > > > Is it 'safe' to use such revisions ? > > > Also I saw that some people are using emacs 23.0.94. Where do they get > > this release if it's not in the dev repo ? > > Hi Francis, > > I cloned the Git repository a while back. =A0The last commit in the > origin/master branch is: > > =A0 commit c2f9b5857cc50663229ad3ec28608fe615ac9e34 > =A0 Author: Chong Yidong > =A0 Date: =A0 Sat May 30 00:31:59 2009 +0000 > > =A0 =A0 =A0 * coding.c (get_translation_table): Check Venable_character_t= ranslation. > I just pulled and it updated the repo to the commit you showed above. ! I just did clone 2 days ago and I did only receive commits up to the one I mentioned in my initial post. So apparently this mirror repo is kept uptodate but not every days. > This is sufficiently recent, Yes indeed but I was just wondering why with a just cloned repo I did have a emacs version older than the one used by some people. > and I have pulled changesets from this in > my personal Mercurial clone. =A0The snapshot of Emacs that I built this > morning is: > > =A0 GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd8.0, GTK+ Version 2.16.2) of= 2009-06-04 on kobe > > So, to the best of my knowledge, a short answer is: ``Yes, you can use > the git repository to build recent Emacs snapshots.'' Do you use a specific tag when building a snapshot or do you use a random commit ? Thanks