From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:44:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7zfttsgahx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <28595.1547703748@alto> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547761446 17986 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2019 21:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:44:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 22:44:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFSD-0004Wj-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFUK-0007nz-Fx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFSo-0007EA-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFSn-0007ZJ-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:44:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58030 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFSm-0007Ve-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:44:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gkFQc-0002F8-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:42:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+LdoXsO+2w0Xgdmx+icQSa9Vta0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232442 Archived-At: > When I unpack an Emacs tarball, I usually check it into a fresh > Mercurial repo before building. Interesting. I wonder why you do that. To me, if I wanted to have a backing VCS, I'd start from a `git clone` rather than a tarball. Is it because you deal with many packages and it's easier to find their tarballs than to find the repository and the tag that corresponds to a particular release? Still, why bother with a VCS? Stefan