From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:08 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877hwo9ogf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <878wh9qaku.fsf@sphinx.net.ru> <83praic5r5.fsf@gnu.org> <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251458334 4879 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 11:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:18:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 13:18:47 2009 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 1MgzTg-0007wV-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgzTf-0008Bw-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgzTa-0008Bg-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgzTV-00089L-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42792 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgzTV-000896-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38967) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgzTV-0003nJ-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MgzTT-0007sT-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:31 +0200 Original-Received: from p5b2c24c5.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.36.197]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:31 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c24c5.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c24c5.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VClqCcwjfosvexE7AgRWnAaBmzY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:114744 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > First, you are probably working on GNU/Linux most of the time. By > contrast, most of my Emacs development is on MS-Windows, where > installing git is an adventure at best. No, at best it is easy. > Last time I looked (I'd love to learn things changed since then), most > of git were Unixy shell scripts, which means I will need to install > Cygwin or MSYS. No, it means you have to install msysgit. > Each one of these needs its own share of learning, > tweaking, and getting used to. If I had this kind of time, I'd > probably install GNU/Linux in the first place. That would not help developing for Windows, though. > Then I already have several local sandboxes: the trunk, the 23_1_RC > branch, a sandbox where I build and test the DOS port, and now the > bidi branch. It's confusing as it is already; learning how to do that > with 2 new tools (Bzr and git) will take more time -- time I don't > have. I prefer not to do that if there's a good alternative. Frankly, CVS is not a good alternative. I've been using git internally for both CVS as well as SVN based projects. The latter works pretty well thanks to git-svn. The former is aggravating, but still better bang for the buck than working directly with CVS only. -- David Kastrup