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: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:09 -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> <874pdqqkq4.fsf@workhorse.earlhome> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199726465 18565 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 17:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:21:05 +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: Jason Earl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 18:21:25 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 1JBvf5-0002LP-4f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:21:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBvei-0003WY-2S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBva8-0007Ef-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBva8-0007ED-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBva7-0007E8-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBva7-0001s6-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBva5-00056y-V9; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <874pdqqkq4.fsf@workhorse.earlhome> (message from Jason Earl on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:16:03 -0700) 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:86502 Archived-At: A distributed VCS can be used just like CVS. The fans of distributed VCS systems like to talk about the many benefits of a distributed system, but I don't know of a single major project that uses a dVCS that doesn't have a canonical URL. For example, if you wanted to start hacking on git (assuming you had a copy of git installed already) you could do: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ That is good. Can you explain what that URL means? Does the URL identify a specific revision? Or does the URL identify a repository? If it identifies a repository, how does git decide which revision to get?