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: What are those .gitignore files doing in the CVS? Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877i46dy05.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87vdrpdeb7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233790074 9322 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2009 23:27:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 00:29:08 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 1LUrB5-0007jM-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUr9m-0005Gl-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUqzk-0001Wb-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUqzi-0001Uu-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50406 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUqzi-0001Ue-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:33932 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUqzh-0002at-0q; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:17:21 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsIEAPewiUlFxIvi/2dsb2JhbACBbs8MhBYGgwI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,381,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="33341198" Original-Received: from 69-196-139-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.139.226]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 04 Feb 2009 18:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A297983D4; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:17:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87vdrpdeb7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:31:40 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (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:108759 Archived-At: > Obviously any other people similarly using git to manage emacs locally > will have similar problems. Thus, .gitignore files are wanted. Git is > not some obscure system, and the read-only emacs git mirror is a useful > and popular tool. > I'm not sure why you even asked .... isn't the above pretty obvious? I'd expect the Git mirror to work as follows: First the Emacs-CVS is converted to an internal Emacs-Git, then a second Emacs-Git (or maybe just another branch) is created which adds the .gitignore files (and any other changes required/useful for Git, it could remove the .cvsignore files as well for example). Thereafter the internal Emacs-Git can be updated by an automatic script which will also merge those changes into the external Emacs-Git. That's how I do it for my Bzr branch, although Jason's Bzr repository currently only corresponds to the "internal" Emacs-Bzr, so I haven't bothered to create an external Emacs-Bzr because it's not widely used enough. So, as long as the mirror is only one-way I don't see a need for those files to appear in the CVS. Stefan