From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: contributing to Emacs Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:13:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83r0q89alr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8fnh1h2.fsf@web.de> <83mt0zs9rc.fsf@gnu.org> <0a968a4e1b267c0f15dd237e6ea12a709fc06d5e.camel@yandex.ru> <838rcisj7o.fsf@gnu.org> <6537fa5fa5c1fe8437ed99ee0988e35895f5a54b.camel@yandex.ru> <8423a35750d8d8e0437c7708f6b4d0bbdfdb7fe0.camel@yandex.ru> <87o7ldf7ky.fsf@web.de> <8cc19084ab18d0adb0f2cee4af14aa1b1d914a83.camel@yandex.ru> <83sfapnl57.fsf@gnu.org> <83pm5tnk78.fsf@gnu.org> <73cbe80096cd97728fcdaccf9f9badeea606570b.camel@yandex.ru> <87ttv57yyb.fsf@yahoo.com> <83sfap7x35.fsf@gnu.org> <85d4763e638d988c89d89ac6008e1d8990492613.camel@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28442"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, arne_bab@web.de, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Konstantin Kharlamov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 18 15:14:35 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qAsEk-0007DR-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAsE8-0001CH-QA; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAsE6-0001Bz-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAsE4-0001vV-DM; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:13:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=q1nJR7nHkWkGfBUiF6iruuEKYc2RwzqChG7oCX7GzJY=; b=qwi+qIjcpMwYdKhstVTA 55Z5hBc4Scl6YSvCd+QdNRq4CJEvIxvNWrNV7eTclXaGMXEUKyD9+RxFjZ8Jd7aZHqbVBlKDiGSWy 4+qW5LsiBHjJESJgYcxi/VuicYVQcrym7vP3hdyl7g2FehK9ZLa7dMLicV3bE31EKtxh+4L7OZ/PX H/jVl/5dr0obLSYoUHVxY7679cUi/+Kjbfki+xP2hhSkcr4q7wAtz8JBsKHKnb7zN8BXnWzRPDhhd y0KQE1ZozDMB/nKvsx9W+gTAZYRZzUJfd3UjU7j16xjqF6H64WwAaXYjscgJz7vnoe1XyFnb4L+4Y 1FAMW5te7BJY4A==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAsE3-00086J-RC; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:13:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <85d4763e638d988c89d89ac6008e1d8990492613.camel@yandex.ru> (message from Konstantin Kharlamov on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:02:10 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306988 Archived-At: > From: Konstantin Kharlamov > Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, arne_bab@web.de, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:02:10 +0300 > > On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 15:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Konstantin Kharlamov > > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , arne_bab@web.de, ams@gnu.org, > > >         emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:28:01 +0300 > > > > > > How do you get latest upstream code without access to VCS? > > > > You can request a snapshot tarball from Savannah. > > Does it imply sending an email to Savannah admins? No. > Because I'm browsing page > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/ and I don't see any > link to a tarball. Do you really need one? > Either way, is it even a realistic usecase? No, not really. Maybe in some emergency. But one can have a release tarball as the base for preparing a patch, or a tree moved from another system, or a system that's off-line, etc. Which is why we also accept diffs, not just "git format-patch".