From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Locks on the Bzr repository Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:39:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87pqxb6qqr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4C6D56DB.7040703@swipnet.se> <4C6D8EC5.7040901@swipnet.se> <4C6E1F0A.7070506@swipnet.se> <837hjlr78p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkwhtws5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83tymppj62.fsf@gnu.org> <871v9t8klf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83lj81pazq.fsf@gnu.org> <4C6F9009.3030105@swipnet.se> <19567.40614.937000.714861@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C6FAC79.1070406@swipnet.se> <19567.52186.156000.312231@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <83y6c0nfkg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282462952 27909 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2010 07:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 22 09:42:30 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1On5CF-0000Kt-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:42:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1On5CF-0000Fb-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59489 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1On5CA-0000Eq-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1On5C9-0000Vb-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:52602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1On5C7-0000V3-7x; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309C2F4003; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:42:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.224]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2082AF4002; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:42:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB089702FE; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:42:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 562871A2C38; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:39:08 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83y6c0nfkg.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:129008 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > If you want to work on the main branch and commit it frequently, > > like Eli wants to do for bug fixes, then bound branches are worse > > because they force you to synchronize for each commit. > You cannot push without synchronizing anyway, or else you will mess > up the upstream history. Sure, but as long as you have arranged your local branch so that its mainline commits all belong on the upstream mainline, you synchronize once *per push* rather than once *per commit*. Synchronization (done correctly) is expensive because it involves a build-and-test cycle.