From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: avar@cpan.org (=?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:15:24 +0000 Message-ID: <864pdvgidv.fsf@cpan.org> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <20071231130712.GB8641@thyrsus.com> <87y7b96az8.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87wsqsvdu6.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199438462 26183 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2008 09:21:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 10:21:22 2008 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 4.50) id 1JAijx-0002fs-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:21:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAija-0006JA-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAPv4-00085N-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAPv4-00085A-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAPv3-000857-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:33 -0500 Original-Received: from u.nix.is ([208.78.101.240] helo=t) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAPv0-0007Th-6C; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=t.cpan.org ident=avar) by t with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAPuu-0006pn-K2; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:15:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:20:52 -0500 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:86050 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The feature of local branches does sound useful. > > I don't see the difference between pulling from somebody (after a > review) and applying the patches attached to a mail. > > Is it possible to "pull from somebody" when his machine > is not on line? Yes, if that person placed (pushed) his changes somewhere before going offline. This could have been been done by sending a patchset generated by git-format-patch to a mailing list, by pushing to a repository that acts as a mirror (repo.or.cz hosts such a service) to name two possibilities.