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: Emacs-23 release branch Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83aaug2hkm.fsf@gnu.org> <8363542h2m.fsf@gnu.org> <831vfr3kqr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268277507 17106 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2010 03:18:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 11 04:18:23 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYul-0005sX-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpYuk-0007pZ-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpYu9-0007c5-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46972 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpYu9-0007bh-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYu8-0006F9-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:50533 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYu4-0006E2-AK; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:40 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEALfvl0tLd+qv/2dsb2JhbACaWHS8aoR5BIMXh3Q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,617,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="57979618" Original-Received: from 75-119-234-175.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.234.175]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2010 22:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A2E97B423D; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <831vfr3kqr.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:55:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:121802 Archived-At: >> Why do you ask? > Because I didn't see any record of the branch in the ChangeLog, so I > wondered how to know when the branch was cut. With CVS, we used to > have a tag at the branch point. Yes, under CVS this is needed in order to keep track of merge. Bzr automatically tracks this info for us, so we don't need it. Stefan