From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116038: On VCS-independent ways of identifying commits, and why they are desirable. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:08 +0100 Message-ID: <877g9z6g3j.fsf@igel.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389890067 29469 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 16:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 17:34:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ptk-0008Up-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ptj-0002Kt-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ptb-0002Js-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ptV-0002LD-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ptU-0002KA-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3f4rZp2j9tz4KK23; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3f4rZp2VYzzbbhl; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R4a6pCnll6-5; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:09 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 8d+o/cMfXbeqo9teBqhpsBYvqJrDn7PCRVwThxcJKzQ= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-32-217.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.32.217]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0D7B2C04DE; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:34:08 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: My LIBRARY CARD expired... In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:45:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168539 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> + particular version control system. (At time of writing Emacs is >> + about to move to its third VCS and another move in the future is > ^^^^^ > fourth > RCS -> CVS -> Bzr > > GNU Arch was semi-officially used for a while between CVS and Bzr, tho > not for the main branch. Eg the multi-tty branch originates from an arch branch. (I didn't actually convert directly from CVS to bzr, but used git as an intermediary.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."