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: Patch queue management systems Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:39:51 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bnnagsi0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <546D2E75.6090701@cs.ucla.edu> <837fyp7tvi.fsf@gnu.org> <546E2899.4050702@cs.ucla.edu> <54756754.5090103@cs.ucla.edu> <54762721.4060908@cs.ucla.edu> <17zjb2h650.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <86mw71pl6d.fsf@yandex.ru> <83fvct145r.fsf@gnu.org> <5486F304.9030101@yandex.ru> <83iohkwy0p.fsf@gnu.org> <54872EA6.9090405@yandex.ru> <83egs8wwr6.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3w7a7sr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bnna5rp7.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418308833 16015 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 14:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:40:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 15:40:26 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 1Xz4un-00035u-BN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz4um-00044m-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz4ud-0003zc-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz4uU-0001OV-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz4uT-0001NM-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz4uQ-0002qs-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:40:02 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f47667.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.118.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:40:02 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f47667.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:40:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f47667.dyn.telefonica.de 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/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2h+P+Yu4N1LsjeGY5/53MIUAjPY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:179761 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:38:15 +0100 Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > SB> If that repository resides on the same server and is created with > SB> hardlinks to the real repo, it should also be cheap disk-usage-wise, > SB> at least initially....) > >>> Eh. > > SB> cd /wherever/the/emacs/repo/lives > SB> git clone --mirror ./emacs.git ./emacs-feature-branches.git > > SB> If the git used is reasonably new, then all of the known-by-hash objects > SB> in the new repository will be hardlinks to the original repo (which is > SB> safe since these will never change). > > I know all that (and the ways to override it) :) > > I was saying that saving disk space is really low on the list of > benefits. Allowing non-fast-forward pushes for certain branches is much > more valuable to the Emacs project. > > Stefan, Glenn: any chance we can get a contributor repo set up that's > just like the Emacs repo but allows non-fast-forward pushes, and whose > commits go to emacs-diffs? Even better would be if user X could only > push to branches "X/.*" Doesn't need a separate repo: a server side commit hook refusing non-fast-forward pushes (more exactly: updating the reference after the commit object is already there) on any path not starting, say, with dev/, should be easily possible. -- David Kastrup