From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <20071231130712.GB8641@thyrsus.com> <87y7b96az8.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87fxxfnrhi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199547028 6292 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 15:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 16:30:46 2008 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 1JBAyz-0002k9-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:30:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAyc-0001wg-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxO-0000tg-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxM-0000qH-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAxL-0000q4-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBAxL-0006Fb-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-71-78.inter.net.il [80.230.71.78]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JUY62107 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:28:44 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:59:07 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:86178 Archived-At: > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= > Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:59:07 +0100 > Cc: Richard Stallman > > Using analogies with CVS here is dangerous and only help to obscure what > a DVCS is. This cannot be helped, and resisting this tendency will only obstruct constructive dialog. People understand new things by analogies to something they already know; this is how we synthesize new knowledge and ideas. > Personal repositories and peer-to-peer sharing opens lots of > possibilities: you can work on a difficult issue using localy the > advantages of having a personal VCS, doing multiple commits as you hack > the problem and, finally, "pushing" to the central repository the clean, > finished work. As mentioned above, you can share your changes with other > people without touching the central repository. Are there any tools or widely-accepted methods for figuring out what is the main "theme" of a certain branch of a given personal repository? Or does Joe Random Hacker still need to use email to find out what is available out there?