From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:35:04 +0900 Message-ID: <87myrmjgqf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080102121745.GD17588@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199424935 27217 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2008 05:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 05:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, esr@snark.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 06:35:54 2008 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 1JAfDm-0006al-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:35:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfDQ-00074A-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfDI-000719-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfDG-0006zD-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAfDF-0006yo-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAfD5-00081T-4Z; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-100-219.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.100.219] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JAfCz-0003Wr-Tn; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:35:06 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07C852FF7; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:35:04 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:27:46 -0500") Original-Lines: 15 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:86043 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Does this mean there is no concept of "trunk"? When someone who is > not normally a participant in the project decides to "download the > current sources", which revision does he get? More precisely, what > determines which revision he gets? Yes there is a concept of a trunk -- at least with git, each repository can contain named branches (each a reference to the tip of some development line), and the branch called "master" is the default for many operations. -Miles -- Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen