Re: Creating a git branch for cond*

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:53:51 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:48:18 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > Hello, Richard, Eli, and Emacs.

> > Richard posted some embryonic code for cond* a little over a week ago.

> > To move things forward, I propose creating the git branch
> > feature/condstar, and incorporating the new code into it in
> > lisp/emacs-lisp/condstar.el.  This will enable its development to happen
> > more systematically and rapidly.

> > Does anybody have any objections?

> You intend to maintain that branch personally?

I'm prepared to do that, yes.

> If you intend for Richard to do that, it's up to him, I think.

Richard will surely respond to my last post.  Let's see what he says.

> Having more than one branch in a repository complicates Git-related
> workflows, and could cause problems if the user pushes to the wrong
> branch.  So it is not an easy decision.

It's clear from my code reviewing so far that cond* is not yet ready for
prime time.  Creating a branch for it would be, I think, the normal
thing in Emacs development.

My main motivation is not to let the current impetus peter out.

But let's see what Richard says.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).