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: Bazaar Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87iqfhctv0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874or1b8a1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253235910 23086 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2009 01:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 03:05:03 2009 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 1MoRuI-0007j5-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoRuI-0005RD-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoRuD-0005R8-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoRu8-0005Qm-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52472 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoRu8-0005Qj-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:43106 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoRu7-00052v-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:51 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAF95skpLd/GK/2dsb2JhbACBU9NLhBwFh34 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,406,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45924363" Original-Received: from 75-119-241-138.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.241.138]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2009 21:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 14EA0827E; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:32:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:115454 Archived-At: >> Would it make much of a difference if we omit some of those old CVS >> branches from the conversion (if that's even possible)? I presume no >> one is going to go rooting around the "amigados-merge" branch from 1996. No it would make almost no difference. > This is not a branch, but a tag. A properly converted repository would > only have 40 branches. We can and should move the bzr branches that do not correspond to a CVS branch to a subdirectory, so as to clean up the name space. But this repository is just for testing, so there's no point wasting time on this (tho feel free to try it, so to get a feel for how it would work). >> Even things like the rmail-mbox branch and the emacs-unicode branch >> could probably be discarded. > I don't agree. We should not carelessly discard history. Agreed, unless there's a good reason for it. Saving a tiny portion of a large disk space doesn't seem like a good reason. Stefan