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: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:48:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83vcz0qz2n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <00oc4v55eb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcz2xh57.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87pqpaxgi3.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hbhw2ue.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87tyeku85x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301507331 12213 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 17:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chadpbrown@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jim Meyering Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 19:48:46 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 1Q4zVd-0001MW-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:48:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4zVd-0008Bv-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60938 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4zVW-00089c-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4zVU-0006Pt-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4zVU-0006Pk-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIV00400TG6BN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:48:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIV002XETGWLHH0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:48:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87tyeku85x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:137922 Archived-At: > From: Jim Meyering > Cc: chadpbrown@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:03:54 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Jim Meyering > >> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:15:53 +0200 > >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> As far as I know, bzr does not have a way to deposit a > >> non-version-controlled file in a just checked-out directory. > > > > What do you mean by that? > > I see no ambiguity. > Please rephrase the question to explain > precisely what you don't understand. Sorry. Let me see if I understand you: did you mean that whenever the tree is updated from upstream, a file that does not exist in the repository should be created in the working tree? > > What would you do with git in this situation? > > git cannot do that either. I thought you were talking about a feature that exists elsewhere. > Adding non-VC'd files is not the job of a version control system. I was fooled by your reference to bzr and to checkout. Sorry for my misunderstanding.