Re: Testers wanted: New gnus backend nnselect

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Harry wrote:
>>> What would I do differently to get to this work in progress the
>>> discussion is about, feature/gnus-select?
>
> Eric replied:
>> Basically, go into your emacs repo, run "git checkout
>> feature/gnus-select", then run "make".
>
> Thanks... I did that and got this response:
>
>  $ git checkout feature/gnus-select
>
>   Branch feature/gnus-select set up to track remote branch
>   feature/gnus-select from origin.  Switched to a new branch
>   'feature/gnus-select'
>
> I didn't really understand what it meant but suspect it is just what I
> wanted.

It is!

> And now I guess for future I would go back to `git pull' and any changes
> in feature/gnus-select would be pulled too?
>
> Or do I need to do something different?

Nope, that's correct. "git pull" to fetch new changes, followed by
another "make". If you want to get back to master at any point, just
"git checkout master", and "make" again.

Thanks for testing!