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: Change to bzr build instructions Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:18:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3lftsf7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <30r5a1s4kt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83fwqbtthq.fsf@gnu.org> <87aagj349j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301048311 18254 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 10:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 11:18:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3467-0008TY-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3463-0008Qx-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60123 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q345t-0008L1-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q345k-00022a-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:42798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q345j-00021y-51; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIL00200YVZNI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:18:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIL00222Z9ZKY50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:18:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87aagj349j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137666 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:04:24 +0100 > > > Why were these files deleted and then created anew in autogen/? Why > > not "bzr mv" them instead? Do we really want to lose their history? > > One thing that makes sense about git: moving files is exactly the same > as deleting and recreating them. Please stop the git propaganda here. The advantages and disadvantages of git vs bzr in this regard are well known and can be found with Google.