From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr repository ready? Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:59:19 -0600 Message-ID: <87ocmwtlbs.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87vdhfpil2.fsf@red-bean.com> <87einvxy9c.fsf@red-bean.com> <20091118230952.GB908@muc.de> <87my2jw05z.fsf@red-bean.com> <83skc9pbf7.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqd5vw5n.fsf@red-bean.com> <877htl53tc.fsf@telefonica.net> <871vjs6ci7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87d43c4f1e.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258786790 15304 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2009 06:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 07:59:42 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 1NBjwZ-0005vd-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:59:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBjwY-0008Kw-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBjwP-0008K4-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBjwK-0008F3-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47554 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBjwJ-0008Ex-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:57271) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBjwJ-00007G-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36433 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBjwH-0006Mr-5b; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:59:21 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87d43c4f1e.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:34:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:117414 Archived-At: Everyone: It's a wiki. Please edit it :-).=20=20 I've always expected that doc would need updating after we start using Bazaar for development; if we can make some of those improvements before then, that's even better. (I'm no Bazaar expert, so please don't worry that you'll be losing some deep wisdom if you edit it -- what I wrote is just a starting point.) -Karl =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> If you were starting from scratch with emacs and bazaar, you clone emacs >>> development branch (with `bzr branch URL' or downloading a >>> tarball). >> >> Actually, "bzr branch URL" on the Emacs repository is a bad idea. >> In his setup where he'll be using 2 branches, he wants to use >> a shared repository. > > You got that wrong. I was not suggesting that he shall create a remote > branch. `bzr branch URL' creates a local branch: > > bzr branch http://somehost.com/repo/bzr/project/trunk > > creates a branch which is a clone of the branch pointed by the URL, but > on your local machine. > > Besides, using a shared repository is just a disk&time saving trick, it > doesn't affect the workflow otherwise. > > So he needs to download the Emacs branch. `bzr branch URL' is one way, > downloading a tarball is another. You can put the result of `bzr branch' > directly on a shared repo. If you downloaded the tarball and want to put > your mirror branch on a shared repository you need two extra steps > besides downloading and untarring. The first is precisely `bzr branch', > but this time locally using the tarball'ed branch as the parent, and the > second step is configuring the resulting branch for using the remote > emacs branch at GNU as its parent. > > Once you created your local mirror with any of the methods above > mentioned, you can start making local branches for hacking, for > storing your personal changes, or for publishing them.