From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git transition checklist Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 00:07:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvoy4hf0.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <20140108161918.GB3877@thyrsus.com> <6ry52quzy8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y52qnxi6.fsf@igel.home> <877gaanv9h.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389222472 27977 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 23:07:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Emacs development discussions To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 00:07:56 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 1W12E4-0004hX-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W12E4-00081y-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W12E0-00081s-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W12Dz-0007Ks-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::22f]:60422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W12Dy-0007KR-4f; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:07:46 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f175.google.com with SMTP id w6so1796491lbh.34 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:07:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=z9y/Kh6xZa62736DhBQfbHvaCe5cBw0jA9zS2MC0kUY=; b=J2Tx+E+TrnzObTg2rOyII+pEgOEGXa7ia4QUaYjknrWZWO671TxYIuTGRjePMgxosA cNI+Hua41g0+rwuEVFcX5ny3c669/256PbbSsVs/Q66kh0cS53gPS7Vq0mE0z2uD6g2s 0+4PDojPyhHWL0rJz4U/MrUXyiR6iaCS8MKlpdI9/HJjdAHSZPrebRR1skS3ME4PwXA1 I6ogZ58Ku8DCk9rBmrBDOFrqEaVMPxZFf/oQ5TWsU/45rurK0RA89Y62/FIgZNTyitOP vzH/iJD4RQHMlrOtyP3e5axU+b8Z5cNsjUGroIQF/axt9xCEymfvenWLCsDFcCnfx5JA BJVA== X-Received: by 10.152.180.228 with SMTP id dr4mr7159431lac.32.1389222464931; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:07:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.114.29.105 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:07:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::22f 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:167823 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> You can just add another remote to your clone that points to the elpa >> repository. Git doesn't really care where the commits originate from, >> once they are in your repository all are alike. > > The instructions for committing to / fetching from Emacs will be made > more complicated by the existence of two separate repos, with weirdly > different but confusingly similar names. > > (You did not answer the question "What's the reason _not_ to share them?".) Because then, switching between the elpa branch and any "core" branch would be a much heavyweight (slower) operation. By contrast, switching between "core" branches should be almost instantaneous. -- Dani Moncayo