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Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19 |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:11:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I know that's how it works. But I don't know what [git's
>> automatic-detection-implementation of copy/rename] means in terms of
>> the behavior when merging changes, including addition/removal of files.
>> IIUC it understands movement of files, but does it understand movement
>> of directories (e.g. if Gnus adds a new file lisp/gnus-new.el, will it
>> appear in Emacs as lisp/gnus/gnus-new.el or lisp/gnu-new.el?; similarly
>> if Emacs adds a new file lisp/new.el will it appear in Gnus as
>> lisp/new.el?).
> Bazaar can't handle that and won't anytime soon as a standard feature
I think your "that" is not what I was talking about, because I know for
a fact it works. What I'm talking about is to just move directories
around in a branch: no need for nested trees or any such thing, no
restriction to "same layout" either.
>> It should be just as easy for a branch as for the trunk.
> Maybe. I worry about ghost revisions appearing when you do a git->bzr
> sync, and that's where they are most likely since git users branch
> with abandon then abandon the branches, while it's no fun to try to
> work with Bazaar that way. Note that ghost revisions causes nasty
> bugs in bzr as recently as a few weeks ago.
Ghost revisions are a problem for Bzr implementers, not users.
Stefan
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, (continued)
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stefan Monnier, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stefan Monnier, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stefan Monnier, 2010/04/20
- Gnus Git synchronization with Emacs Bazaar (was: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/04/21
- Gnus Git synchronization with Emacs Bazaar (was: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Sven Axelsson, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Andreas Schwab, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Teemu Likonen, 2010/04/20
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Teemu Likonen, 2010/04/21
- Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010/04/21