Re: What is emacs architecture ?

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Chad Brown writes:
>
>  > For finding a `consistent set', you're really going to want to read
>  > up on Bazaar first.  The concepts that you want here are `tags' and
>  > perhaps `branches', but I recommend that you read the overview
>  > first.
>
> Not really.  In CVS you need tags for consistency, but in Emacs
> practice in a modern VCS, pretty much every version accessible via the
> VCS is going to be "consistent" in the sense of "intended to be
> built".

This is (hopefully) right for the commits made since the transition from
cvs to bzr, but the revisions imported from cvs (which are about 98% of
the VCS history) have no such guarantee of consistency. Only the
imported cvs tags can provide that.

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