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: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:22:59 -0600 Message-ID: <87vdh0rid8.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <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> <87ws1ku7zd.fsf@red-bean.com> <87hbso4s13.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aaygoy90.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdh36d48.fsf@telefonica.net> <831vjrptha.fsf@gnu.org> <87einr63b6.fsf@telefonica.net> <83y6lzo9e7.fsf@gnu.org> <871vjr750o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83tywnnq34.fsf@gnu.org> <873a475bsr.fsf@telefonica.net> <87zl6egcmz.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259015002 29328 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 22:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 23:23:15 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 1NChJS-0007DQ-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:23:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NChJS-0007YC-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NChJM-0007Xo-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NChJH-0007XE-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51666 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NChJH-0007XB-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:40949) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NChJF-0007e6-Gv; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40545 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NChJE-0006dT-ML; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:00 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:38:34 -0500") 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:117643 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Unless you explicitly request it, a bzr branch or checkout carries the > full history of the branch. So `bzr log' does not need contact with the > repository. > > Does that apply to "lightweight checkouts" which is what someone said > we should use? Or are you talking about "normal" checkouts, which reportedly > are almost obsolete and going to be discontinued? There are terminology changes going on, and I'm not fully up-to-date with those. But the *semantics* are not changing: the normal way to use Bazaar is to fetch full historical data with each branch, so you have everything locally, and this is also what we are recommending for Emacs development. Don't let the terminology kerfuffle fool you. -Karl