From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info about available CVS/Arch/Git branches Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:06:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87eji7iwa4.fsf@meyering.net> References: <87r6m9za8o.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <86r6m7kbyn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186999557 31296 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2007 10:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 13 12:05:55 2007 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 1IKWnY-0000Gx-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKWnX-00025b-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKWnT-00024t-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKWnQ-00024O-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKWnQ-00024L-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from server1.f7.net ([64.34.169.74] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKWnP-0000Fz-G8; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:11 -0400 X-Envelope-From: jim@meyering.net X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from io.meyering.net (server1.f7.net [64.34.169.74]) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) with ESMTP id l7DA5AK28577; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: by io.meyering.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 086BD21B3; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:06:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <86r6m7kbyn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 13 Aug 2007 11\:42\:08 +0200") Original-Lines: 27 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76445 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Andreas Schwab writes: >> Michael Olson writes: >>> I'm intrigued by the mention of "git" in the subject line. Do we have a >>> bidirectionally-synced git repo for Emacs yet? I noticed >>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=summary >>> but I wasn't sure if it was two-way, since there is no mention of it >>> on the Emacs Savannah project page. >> >> You'll have to ask Jim Meyering about it. > > It would appear that this repo is made from CVS. If it is feasible, > it might me nicer to do this from the arch repo since that would > presumably keep track of the merges (information that is missing from > CVS). I've had mediocre success using git archimport however. > > Maybe it is also possible to extract just the merge info (which commit > was merged into which branch) in textual form from arch? I could then > try my hand at figuring out a way to inject this info into the git > repository. You might want to look at how that is handled in the git <-> p4 mirroring code in git's contrib/fast-import/*. BTW, in the last week, I changed things so that branches in the git repository are now pushed into the public emacs.git. Before, I'd been pushing only the trunk ("master").