From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Testing the new VC code Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:31:06 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <874mtp58a9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124083310.GA29913@thyrsus.com> <87zjbh3r98.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124094929.GA32148@thyrsus.com> <87k32k51ka.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124104616.GA1744@thyrsus.com> <87fvd8steg.fsf@gmx.de> <20141124130355.GA5432@thyrsus.com> <20141125025204.GA24848@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416904282 9868 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 08:31:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:31:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 09:31:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWi-0006ab-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:31:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWh-0003oj-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWY-0003oX-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWQ-0001t3-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWQ-0001st-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XtBWO-0006Lh-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:30:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 155.55.49.12 ([155.55.49.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:30:52 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 155.55.49.12 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:30:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.55.49.12 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1OO9z/o9uOE7u1VDPHIdM6BZD4U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178223 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier : >> I could use a similar technique with Gitorious. > Or you can use a branch in emacs.git on Savannah, like Lars did. The idea was to avoid cluttering the Savannah repository with obsolete feature branches. You could suggest a naming convention like "features/some-feature-branch" instead of just "some-feature-branch", and you could add an automated cleanup that backs out old and unused branches somewhere and clean them out of the the Savannah repository, but it would be simpler to just avoid the clutter. And trust me: there _will_ be clutter, and sooner than you think. Another possibility would be to make an emacs-features.git repository on Savannah, and just let it be filled with clutter. If you make it a sparse repository containing just master and emacs-24, it will be "preloaded" for current feature branches, and there will be less to push.