From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:15:42 +0200 Message-ID: <831tzt9wht.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140124185429.GA25191@thyrsus.com> <83k3dpcbpe.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125062551.GA2554@thyrsus.com> <83bnz0cxp8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125140637.GA5631@thyrsus.com> <83vbx8azss.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125160124.GA8171@thyrsus.com> <83ppngasor.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125210132.GB13305@thyrsus.com> <83zjmiabsr.fsf@gnu.org> <20140127003312.GA20522@thyrsus.com> <838uu19yo9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y521z80z.fsf@igel.home> <8361p59xim.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390842959 16495 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2014 17:15:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: schwab@linux-m68k.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 18:16:05 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 1W7pn3-0006pO-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:16:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pn2-0001st-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pmv-0001sB-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pmo-0008Ck-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:15:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:37824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pmo-0008CL-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0200A00KGM2700@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:15:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N02004S7L91C8A0@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:15:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8361p59xim.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:169173 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:53:37 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: Andreas Schwab > > Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 > > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > A bzr repository is just a convenience for storing several related > > > branches in a way that saves disk storage, that's all. > > > > This is not true for most repositories. The branches are usually > > connected together by having a common root. > > Yes, that's what I meant by "related". Sorry for being inaccurate. Btw, it's possible to have branches without a common root (or any common revisions) in a bzr repo, it just doesn't make sense, because there will be no disk space savings.