Re: source repository

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 7/3/07, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
> > Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> > > What is the best way to stay in touch with Emacs development?  As I
> > > understood, Emacs now uses Arch mostly,
> >
> > You understood incorrectly. Some developers use arch, but the definitive
> > repository for Emacs is CVS. Since Miles is away at the moment, the arch
> > synching is not happening. I'm not sure why savannah lists arch above
> > cvs (probably it is alphabetical order), but it is misleading - there
> > should be some indication there that the main repository is CVS.
>
> Oh.  A pity Emacs still uses so old system.  I got used to Subversion
> lately.

If you are behind a firewall (the way I am), you could use Mercurial
repository which is updated daily from the CVS head. I use it for my
daily dosage of fresh emacs. Mercurial is implemented in python and is
well ported (IMHO: and far superior to other SCM)

repo: http://hg.intevation.org/emacs
Some basic commands:
First checkout:
$ hg clone http://hg.intevation.org/emacs
Subsequent updates:
$ hg pull -u

with best regards,
dky


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Dhruva Krishnamurthy
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