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: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:03:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87tyeku85x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <00oc4v55eb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcz2xh57.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87pqpaxgi3.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hbhw2ue.fsf@rho.meyering.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301486663 32704 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 12:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chadpbrown@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 14:04:18 2011 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 1Q4u8I-0003GJ-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:04:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4u8H-0003WS-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48533 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4u85-0003Sx-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4u7z-0004G1-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net ([82.230.74.64]:42439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4u7x-0004FB-8S; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id C5AED600EF; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:03:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:27:17 -0400") Original-Lines: 19 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.230.74.64 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:137904 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Jim Meyering >> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:15:53 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> As far as I know, bzr does not have a way to deposit a >> non-version-controlled file in a just checked-out directory. > > What do you mean by that? I see no ambiguity. Please rephrase the question to explain precisely what you don't understand. > What would you do with git in this situation? git cannot do that either. Adding non-VC'd files is not the job of a version control system. That's why there's a separate build script.