From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master c6f03ed: Fix a problem in url.el without GnuTLS
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:50:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d27m3ytb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548DCCE4.905@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:46:12 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > perhaps we need to radically rethink
> > our recommended project workflow, like not base it on merges but on
> > rebase, or push fixes to master and then cherry-pick them to the
> > release branch, or something else
>
> Part of the problem is the mundane business of maintaining ChangeLogs by hand,
> an error-prone process with merges. We're planning to fix this (currently
> scheduled for next month) by generating ChangeLogs automatically. Perhaps once
> we've done that the remaining problems with merging will be so small that we can
> just live with them.
I'm not sure. The problem of using incorrect Git commands in the case
that triggered this discussion was unrelated to ChangeLogs.
> (The particular problem Ted ran into seems pretty complicated; I'm
> not sure it's a good use case for us when designing our development
> workflow.)
People are running into problems all over. It's not just Ted and not
just that particular push.
> More fundamentally there's the issue of how much we want commits to be
> serialized. That is, do we want development history to look as if it was done
> one commit at a time in a single branch? If so, merges are not the way to go,
> because they're DAG-based.
That's what I was asking, in different words.
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[not found] ` <E1Xz67Y-00036o-Vf@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2014-12-11 16:47 ` master c6f03ed: Fix a problem in url.el without GnuTLS Leo Liu
2014-12-11 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 23:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-12 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 13:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-12 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-13 0:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 0:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-13 1:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 10:16 ` David Engster
2014-12-18 22:38 ` David Engster
2014-12-19 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 9:04 ` David Engster
2014-12-13 9:50 ` David Engster
2014-12-13 13:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 14:13 ` David Engster
2014-12-13 14:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-13 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 19:44 ` David Engster
2014-12-13 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 22:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-14 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 23:13 ` David Engster
2014-12-14 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 16:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-14 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 17:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-14 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 17:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-14 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-14 18:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-14 19:41 ` David Engster
2014-12-14 21:40 ` David Engster
2014-12-15 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-15 20:39 ` David Engster
2014-12-16 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-17 9:58 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-17 10:52 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-17 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-17 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-17 20:37 ` David Engster
2014-12-18 4:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-18 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-18 20:00 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-18 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 8:09 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-19 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 10:33 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-18 21:18 ` David Engster
2014-12-18 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-18 19:46 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-18 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 6:07 ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-19 7:57 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-19 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-18 20:46 ` David Engster
2014-12-14 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-15 4:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 20:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-12 0:30 ` Leo Liu
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