From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Creating a git branch for cond* Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:08:37 +0000 Message-ID: References: <864jf1csts.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15789"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 17:09:13 2024 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 1rT2Hx-0003qA-4z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT2HX-0006fa-CM; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:08:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT2HV-0006fS-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rT2HS-0000Jv-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 9312 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Jan 2024 17:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15d95.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.93.149]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:08:38 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 9343 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jan 2024 16:08:37 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <864jf1csts.fsf@gnu.org> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.3; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315375 Archived-At: 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 > > 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).