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: Creating a git branch for cond* Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:17:43 +0200 Message-ID: <861q9vz65k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864jf1csts.fsf@gnu.org> <86o7d44xqg.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1358"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 08:18:42 2024 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 1rVnow-00005G-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:18:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rVno8-0006v7-SD; Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:17:52 -0500 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 1rVno8-0006up-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:17:52 -0500 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 1rVno7-00058U-E0; Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:17:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=jFwurbzL+cXotiRWYaEjq9moK3WroHaHy/VDEyDyNbU=; b=bB7GNnl/heaW 87W/HQLSlmiZoLQNhQnFOYGh6oP2GUwKyPHcN0nwPuInB4W7/qLU5IrDLLa54T/ddpJv5cSVyWofp VWxiSxyxsm0/9+/bPW14NWNojM5dAE5KC4VcJiwDubiWl+mzB55/9HKyEgD8IEgQxq1aW73D9pzWO tzFVJhcce3WN3ryaziZLo0NjvGkY09vWVsjqIkTmVtQe9Pw4+xKktMpCpV4hJji6HS0iBYswEjeFa t+oLXo93djDTW85AHugkfBen8xXjkX7jq+eVZlFbirkhpbgQIWm3DfPH1sc18LE5ZRD/TpySXkQF5 4oLBdUvqiAFJHh8NFkBFBg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:40:24 -0500) 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:315738 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:40:24 -0500 > > > The idea was to keep it on a branch until we decide it is ready to > > land on master. Having it on a branch will allow to work on > > finilizing it more conveniently. This includes solving any > > significant issues and adding documentation. I would prefer to keep > > it on a branch during this (hopefully, short) period, since that would > > allow us to keep its history afterwards, and will also avoid the > > need to send whole files each time something changes. > > I really don't want it to be in a branch, but I can commit some of the > past versions before committing te current versions. I figure to start > with the earliet version that's not drastically different. WDYT? We can start with whatever version you like. What's important is that all the changes since the first commit are tracked by Git, rather than maintaining the code aside, locally on someone's machine.