From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fxxbjjk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199679499 1987 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 04:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 05:18:39 2008 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 1JBjRd-0007PK-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:18:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBjRG-0005cl-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBjRB-0005bH-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBjR9-0005Zz-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBjR9-0005Zn-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBjR9-0001fL-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBjR7-0003q7-Uo; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:05 -0500 In-reply-to: <85fxxbjjk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:10:53 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:86424 Archived-At: "the current development version" is not a concept for git. No repository is special as far as git is concerned. The "current development version" is a social, not a technical concept. For example, the git maintainer was off-line unexpectedly for some months recently. Somebody else took over seamlessly by collecting, arranging and coordinating patches on the git list into _his_ repository. With CVS, people can get the current version of every program on savannah in a uniform way. What you say seems to imply that that is not possible with git. That seems like a big step backwards. Within a community of people that work together, it won't be a problem. They will know to look THERE instead of HERE. But users in general can't be expected to check for that sort of thing before they get the current development Emacs.