From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:52:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210131223952.429.10439@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210131223954.A429420DF3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87ft2evq8b.fsf@igel.home> <83lfc65x0z.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37706"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 06:55:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B8R-0009fg-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:55:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B8Q-0006EY-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B5L-0002Oi-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B5L-0008Pc-58; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B5J-0008Bw-Uo; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:52:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83lfc65x0z.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:06:52 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263776 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. ]]] > Basically, "remote-tracking branch is a branch that tracks some > remote". Very clear, right? I am as lost as you are. But it suggetss to me that the purpose of the code in thatbranch is to support some Git feature. Developers, is that the case? If so, it is probably good for Emacs to work with it. But it seems to me that people should have explained the branc's purpose and got your approval before installing it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)