From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: casual contributing with git Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 08:31:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfyz837g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y333f3s6.fsf@mbork.pl> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="260143"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 22 07:32:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJr8-0015X9-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 07:32:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJr7-00030Z-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 01:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJqp-0002i9-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 01:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJqn-0002sX-Cl; Wed, 22 May 2019 01:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1652 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJqm-00053x-S5; Wed, 22 May 2019 01:31:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <87y333f3s6.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sun, 19 May 2019 06:48:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236882 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 06:48:25 +0200 > Cc: Emacs developers > > > On 2019-05-19, at 03:41, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:51, Stephen Leake wrote: > >> > >> Workspaces are cheap; I keep a full checkout of master, and one of each > >> branch I'm working on, at all times. > > > > Is that the recommended way ? > > Of course not! (At least, not as far as Git goes in general - but > I don't think there is some Emacs idiosyncrasy here.) In a way, there is: the branches in Emacs tend to diverge very quickly, so after a while, if you switch branches in the same tree, the builds become very long, and worse: you need to bootstrap each time to avoid problems in the built Emacs. It quickly becomes very inconvenient.