From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why does make run git? Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83bmo00yw7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501694880 752 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2017 17:28:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 17:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 19:27:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxR4-0008Ii-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxRA-0004nx-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxPy-0004ZQ-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxPx-0000Uv-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxPt-0000T3-Ro; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxPt-0002QZ-8n; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:26:41 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tino Calancha on Tue, 1 Aug 2017 23:49:08 +0900 (JST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217244 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Perhaps there should be a function in Emacs that does this, and some > > VC commands could call it. > I think is for convenience. But it is unreliable. You can't rely on the user's having done 'make' in the repository before doing the git operations that use these settings. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.