From: joakim@verona.se
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New sync'd branch
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:38:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hbvs5lcu.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:04:20 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Actually, I don't have a good idea what I will need, because for that
> I would need to study git at least to some degree, won't I? What's
> below is just the beginning.
Indeed.
>
>> - make local copy of remote repos
>> - hack
>> - fetch changes from upstream
>> - provide patch for emacs-devel to ridicule
>>
>> which is about 3 scm commands. It seems to be a small investment even
>> for the interim.
>>
>> I'm sure, though, that you need to do more complex things I'm missing.
>>
>> Now that I use git I do more stuff like local branching, having several
>> remote branches to sync with, etc, but one doesn't have to do those kinds
>> of things.
>
> First, you are probably working on GNU/Linux most of the time. By
> contrast, most of my Emacs development is on MS-Windows, where
> installing git is an adventure at best. Last time I looked (I'd love
> to learn things changed since then), most of git were Unixy shell
> scripts, which means I will need to install Cygwin or MSYS. Each one
> of these needs its own share of learning, tweaking, and getting used
> to. If I had this kind of time, I'd probably install GNU/Linux ion
> the first place.
>
> Then I already have several local sandboxes: the trunk, the 23_1_RC
> branch, a sandbox where I build and test the DOS port, and now the
> bidi branch. It's confusing as it is already; learning how to do that
> with 2 new tools (Bzr and git) will take more time -- time I don't
> have. I prefer not to do that if there's a good alternative.
Yes I understand your situation better now.
If it would be any help I could send you a pre-installed Gnu/Linux
machine, but I suppose getting a machine with a pre-installed distro is
not the main time sink you're worried about.
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-23 22:21 New sync'd branch Stefan Monnier
2009-08-23 22:35 ` joakim
2009-08-24 13:58 ` Leo
2009-08-24 19:24 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2009-08-25 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 8:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-26 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 4:47 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-27 5:38 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-28 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 6:33 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 7:08 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-27 7:14 ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-08-27 8:55 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-27 9:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-27 10:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 9:47 ` joakim
2009-08-28 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 9:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 9:19 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-28 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 13:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 14:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 17:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 17:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 18:00 ` David Reitter
2009-08-29 3:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-28 15:08 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 17:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 19:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 21:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-28 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 22:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-29 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-29 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-29 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 0:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 22:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 14:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 14:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 14:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-28 9:38 ` joakim [this message]
2009-08-28 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-28 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-28 15:59 ` David Reitter
2009-08-27 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 21:52 ` Glenn Morris
2009-08-27 22:17 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-24 22:25 Nick Roberts
2009-08-25 9:29 ` joakim
2009-08-25 14:06 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-25 21:02 ` Nick Roberts
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