From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87y521z80z.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140124185429.GA25191@thyrsus.com> <83k3dpcbpe.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125062551.GA2554@thyrsus.com> <83bnz0cxp8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125140637.GA5631@thyrsus.com> <83vbx8azss.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125160124.GA8171@thyrsus.com> <83ppngasor.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125210132.GB13305@thyrsus.com> <83zjmiabsr.fsf@gnu.org> <20140127003312.GA20522@thyrsus.com> <838uu19yo9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390841262 26995 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2014 16:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 17:47:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pLf-00031b-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pLf-0002QJ-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pLW-0002Ph-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pLR-000777-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:42878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7pLL-00075E-Ht; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fCcM20CByz4KK2d; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fCcM16zsdzbbcQ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mgnr4A0aHp2S; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: u+nD3YACxSywtwz+xG48p8/vCmY/60hgtAJq4ATD8LY= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-54-47.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.54.47]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B067B2C0540; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: HELLO KITTY gang terrorizes town, family STICKERED to death! In-Reply-To: <838uu19yo9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:28:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169171 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Since you are saying this in quite a few of your blogs and articles, > let's finish this once and for all: there is no confusion. Bazaar > works on branches, period. Bazaar is deeply branch-centric, right > down to the level of its DAG topology and the way it handles merges. > A bzr repository is just a convenience for storing several related > branches in a way that saves disk storage, that's all. This is not true for most repositories. The branches are usually connected together by having a common root. This is also the case of the Emacs repository: *all* branches (except the old elpa branch) have a single root in common. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."