From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:55:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C61DA12.5080403@pobox.com> <87ocd9c6dp.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281690043 8067 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 09:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 11:00:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Ojq81-0008LF-Hw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ojq7z-000555-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33092 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ojq7U-00054q-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojq7Q-0002UF-I3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojq7Q-0002U7-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojq7P-0007yz-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-44-64.netcologne.de ([89.0.44.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-44-64.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-44-64.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CgAxToqQwJvQvWUTVqkHBVoJe9g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74596 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > > $ cd path/to/submodule/root > $ cat > .gitignore > *.elc > C-d > > That should get rid of the untracked content in your submodule in the > case of byte compilation. Now I don't see them but still the submodules are marked as dirty. Not a big deal anyway... > > If you're planning on modifying anything about the project, then the > accepted way to do this in git would be to set up your own fork of the > project to enable you to share patches and to update your own copy of > it. Also, you'll need a commit at which to point your submodule and > if you're going to change the submodule there's no guarantee that the > original author will accept them so you'll need a central place to > keep those commits. Yes that's the point, if I - commit something - can't merge because of some conflicts - the patch not accepted Then I'm done... I didn't want to fork all those project but they're not so many in the end maybe I can live with it... It's really a pity that some projects still use CVS, why do they hate themselves so much :D?