Re: git commit/push and VC

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:07:08 -0500 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> Stephen Berman wrote:
>
>> possible to use VC to push changes to another branch or repository, and
>> if so, how?
>
> `vc-pull' exists, but nobody wrote (or nobody pushed, ha ha) `vc-push'.
>
> Eg
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/12415
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-12/msg00267.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-05/msg00842.html

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:29:30 +0700 Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> GitForEmacsDevs says this:
>>
>>    If you are a committer, you can merge to the upstream master directly.
>>
>>    First, update your repository:
>>
>>          cd $DEVHOME/emacs
>>          git checkout master
>>          git pull
>>          git merge TASKNAME
>>          git push
>>
>>    Run the tests:
>>
>>          make check
>>
>>    and then commit
>>
>>          git status
>>          git commit -m "fixes debbugs:12345"
>>
>>    which merges all your new commits to the upstream master.
>>
>> I don't understand why `git commit' follows `git push' here (or why
>> there isn't another `git push' after `git commit').
>
> Indeed, the instruction quoted above is strange.
[...]

Thanks to both of you for the replies.  I see that GitForEmacsDevs on
the Wiki has been updated in the mean time, so it's clearer (and
hopefully correct) now.

Steve Berman