From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch (with proposed new file) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4654C2CF.1060402@gnu.org> <4654C5AA.9000204@gmail.com> <4654CC27.3000908@gmail.com> <87odkbunni.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4654CF9B.40309@gmail.com> <4654D337.8070602@gnu.org> <4654D44C.2000303@gmail.com> <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> <20070524143730.GA2592@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180013815 13438 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 13:36:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Chong Yidong , Jason Rumney , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs Devel To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 15:36:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrDUk-0000sE-8c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrDUm-0004fs-S3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrDRJ-0002LP-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrDRJ-0002Kf-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrDRI-0002KL-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from 4.red-83-41-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.5.4] helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrDRH-0000O7-A8; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 83FD11C008; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070524143730.GA2592@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "24 May 2007 15\:14\:01 +0200\, Thu\, 24 May 2007 15\:37\:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71754 Archived-At: > I believe there should a file in savannah listing our CVS branches, it > should be at the top level, and it should be called > description-of-branches.txt (not some meaningless overlookable name like > "branches.txt"). Problem is: where to place it so that the casual user can find it? I believe there should be a standard way to do that in savannah, both for CVS repositories and for Arch repositories (and for any other). Stefan