From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:04:53 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87vcyx7n6i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k4fevkc1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83wrjepepy.fsf@gnu.org> <874o6iugpt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ei5lycis.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301688357 8460 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 20:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:05:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 22:05:53 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 1Q5kbQ-0003xR-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5kbP-000443-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52942 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5kaj-0003Cz-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kai-0002aQ-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kai-0002aK-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kag-0003M1-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from p508eacf7.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.172.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508eacf7.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508eacf7.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/2xi49M/XfebjZSwcZegVd+Z2dQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:138025 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Óscar Fuentes >> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:35:58 +0200 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> Anyone can setup a public repo anytime, anywhere. Let's think of a >> >> long-lived feature branch of the type of lexbind or bidi >> > >> > The bidi branch was never alive for a long time. >> >> bidi was mentioned as an example of a task suitable for a long lived >> feature branch (and for working on a team, or at least publish the >> branch and accept occasional contributions.) I was not implying that >> bidi was actually managed that way. > > And I was trying to say that you won't find more than a very small > number of examples of long-living (as opposed to long dead) branches. Well, the Unicode branch was certainly one of the most impressively long-lived branches. Multitty had a non-trivial life-time as well, and lexbind has been around for even longer than Unicode IIRC. -- David Kastrup