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: Release tags Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:23:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83a9x4e8wm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <04A8931A-A044-4F8A-86FD-7AA70DA2B5E3@mit.edu> <87d32awhc7.fsf@gnu.org> <87wr0aldw0.fsf@gmail.com> <83pq62ec1i.fsf@gnu.org> <87fw6x505b.fsf@gnu.org> <87mx15lr1k.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87y5kpydsr.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipbtlk7v.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874nndkxj2.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87392xtbei.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87zk55jfi3.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346862201 9168 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 16:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 18:23:22 2012 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 1T9INi-0001ff-Kh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:23:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9INf-0006FC-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9INY-0006EY-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9INS-0001wt-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9INS-0001wo-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M9V00C00XF0UD00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:22:53 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M9V00C3IXI4B2B0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:22:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zk55jfi3.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:153053 Archived-At: > From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:49:24 +0200 > Cc: Tim Cross , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Dealing with multiple branches on bzr is a bit of an inconvenience,= for > several reasons. One of them is mentioned by the OP: you end having > multiple working copies around, or having to learn and remember tri= cks > for reusing the same working copy. With bzr 2.5, you _can_ use co-located branches. But I won't recommend that with Emacs, because the branch and the trunk diverged so much at this point that you'd need a full bootstrap every time you switch. Which just about eliminates the advantage of co-located branches.