Re: What's the status of the emacs' git repo on savannah

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpia...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm wondering if this repo is kept uptodate frequently.
>
> > I cloned, compiled and installed emacs from the master branch which
> > points to this commit: 8e282b1c43fd6768a9ec339f5cb8aefd4d2fc2
> > Date:   Wed Apr 29 04:46:15 2009 +0000
>
> > Asking to the freshly installed emacs its version gives me:
>
> > $ emacs --version
> > GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1
>
> > I don't think it is the latest emacs.
>
> > Does anybody have any information on this repo ?
>
> I think emacs developpers are working actually on the savannah repo.
> It's better waiting all problems are fixed before (re)installing emacs.
>

Can't I use this repo to retrieve pre-release or something like ?

In the repo, there are tags such as: EMACS_PRETEST_23_0_92.

Is it 'safe' to use such revisions ?

Also I saw that some people are using emacs 23.0.94. Where do they get
this release if it's not in the dev repo ?

thanks