From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81222 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Just a bit confused about following gnus devel branch Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87ehu9c9fv.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87zkcxpggu.fsf@newsguy.com> <87obtd8ilz.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328473719 14599 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2012 20:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:28:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29503@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 05 21:28:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8hP-0007fq-0W for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:28:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8gh-00016J-44; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:27:51 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8gg-00016C-5U for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:27:50 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8gf-0006qK-02 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:27:49 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8gc-0001TB-W8 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:47 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru8gc-0007Lu-07 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:46 +0100 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:45 +0100 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81222 Archived-At: 05/02/12 15:23, Ted Zlatanov > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:17:21 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > > HP> I've followed some of the discussion of gnus development plans, > HP> nognus, magnus, but didn't really understand what is happening there. > > HP> I'm left not having a clue of how a gnus users who has tracked > HP> nognus from way back through its other names is to continue tracking > HP> the development branch. > > HP> Can someone say definitively, what git command is required now to > HP> start and continue tracking the development branch of gnus? > > We're doing a basic "branch per release" approach as explained in > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/software-branching-and-parallel-universes.html > > The "master" branch is development. Currently that's known as Ma (真) > Gnus. No Gnus lives in a new branch called "no-gnus" which was branched > off 5 days ago; until then No Gnus was "master". We're simply branching > off older versions for bug fixes and maintenance, while we're keeping > the "master" branch as the development branch as it's always been. > > So, you just need to clone the gnus.git repo. You should be in the > "master" branch by default (type "git branch" to be sure). If you're > not, "git checkout master" will do it. What about synchronisation with emacs? Does emacs track nognus? Will it continue doing so after feature freeze? Do I have to track gnus specifically in addition to emacs to benefit from the latest features?