From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elpa packages and Makefiles Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:40:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877g3j8dg9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87oatwrtew.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87oatnxmm0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412865667 19016 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2014 14:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:41:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 16:41:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEto-0001Zb-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEto-0001ME-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEtK-0001J3-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEtC-0002sz-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEtC-0002sj-Oz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcEtA-0001Im-Rx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.168.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:40:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zmnYPnmhNaRHXjcHrcHRMa/RFoE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100350 Archived-At: SM> The reason I prefer doing that is because I think I know what "git SM> merge" does, whereas I have difficulty understanding what "git SM> read-tree" or "git subtree" does. > `git subtree' is nice when you want subsequent resyncs of the same tree. > It can maintain a bijective commit ID mapping between the source repo > and the destination repo. Subtree merges work fine as well for subsequent resyncs of the same tree, and they don't need to maintain a bijective mapping between the two (because this mapping is the identity mapping). Stefan