From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr repository ready? Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zl6vskq0.fsf@red-bean.com> <874op07kb0.fsf@red-bean.com> <87639fr3w7.fsf@red-bean.com> <87vdhfpil2.fsf@red-bean.com> <87einvxy9c.fsf@red-bean.com> <20091118230952.GB908@muc.de> <87my2jw05z.fsf@red-bean.com> <83skc9pbf7.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqd5vw5n.fsf@red-bean.com> <87vdh29lfo.fsf@red-bean.com> <83k4xhoo0n.fsf@gnu.org> <87my2dhlko.fsf@telefonica.net> <87r5rpsnfw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87einpf74m.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83d439nicw.fsf@gnu.org> <87ocmspuyp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ocmsgt9t.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259060711 11734 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2009 11:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 24 12:05:03 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 1NCtCh-00061n-JT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCtCg-0004EN-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCtCQ-0004BJ-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCtCL-0004A0-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58847 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCtCK-00049t-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33729) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCtCK-0006R4-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NCtCJ-0007z4-H9; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:39 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ocmsgt9t.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:117669 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:10 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I'm not sure I understand this. With the commands described on the > > wiki, my understanding is that the history is in the `trunk' branch, > > which is a mirror of (some) branches in the master repository, while > > the source tree is in the development branches. Is that true? > > No. The history of the project is not just the names, dates, and log > messages for versions. It also includes the contents of the files that > make up each version, either as a copy of the file, or as a sequence > of diffs against some base version. Got it, thanks. > > Bazaar allows all the branches in the repository to share storage, > > which makes the branches much more lightweight than CVS branches. > > However, it still takes time to checkout the source tree for each > > branch, and bootstrapping a new tree is annoyingly long. That is > > why we recommend that for small changes you keep reusing the same > > ``quickfixes'' branch. This way, once you bootstrapped the > > ``quickfixes'' branch once, the subsequent update, build, and commit > > steps of the update-edit-build-test-commit cycle will all be very > > fast, as long as you continue working in the same branch. > > That's better than what I had. So where did the part about no build products in the tree fit in here? Which tree were you talking about?