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: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:16:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83d2k8w71j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <83r48qxg6e.fsf@gnu.org> <87y52y5bau.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83iou1y06o.fsf@gnu.org> <87ha9l5d82.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83txdlw1aw.fsf@gnu.org> <871u0p5bdt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r48pvz45.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqih3u7x.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ppo8x1sj.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhyw4xaj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ha9kwz2c.fsf@gnu.org> <878uuw4ug4.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388819830 13628 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 07:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 08:17:16 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 1VzLTv-00086U-7p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 08:17:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzLTu-0004aR-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzLTm-0004a5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzLTf-00058v-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:17:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:52593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzLTf-00058o-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:16:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYV00B0083E6A00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:16:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYV00BCD88A3K50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:16:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878uuw4ug4.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 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:167258 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:38:35 +0100 >=20 > Curiously enough, `git pull' seems to be a Perl script (the executa= bles > and scripts are on Git/libexec/git-core.) But it works from MSYS, h= ence > somehow the problem is not so serious. For you, maybe, and with the current versions of the MSYS DLL that yo= u have in msysgit and in MSYS. But relying on this is living dangerously and _will_ some day require you to deal with strange failures and crashes during a build. No, thanks. I've fought that war once and decided that I never again want to go that way. > I suggest that for the time being we stop worrying about what unkow= n > problems might be lurking and wait for something concrete to > materialize. If you use MSYS and msysgit my way, you don't have to wait for anything to materialize, because it won't. It's just inconvenient, a= s I need to have 2 separate shell sessions open at all times, and remember to switch to the right one depending on what I want to do.