Re: Ma Gnus v0.1 is released

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:10:11 +0000 Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> wrote: 

RR> Is Ma Gnus a replacement for nognus for those of us wanting your latest
RR> and greatest alongside, say, emacs 24 where the emacs 24 version of gnus
RR> is frozen?

Ma Gnus is the name of what you get in the master branch of the Gnus Git
repo.  No Gnus used to be it, but now No Gnus has been branched off master.

So before you had the commit history (branch names in *markers*):

A->B->C->D->*master* AKA No Gnus

Now you have

A->B->C->D->E->F->*master* AKA Ma Gnus

A->B->C->D->P->Q->F->*no-gnus* AKA No Gnus

Which means that they had a common history up to the branching point
after D, and some commits like F may be shared between the branches.

I strongly recommend the digitally free and excellent "Pro Git" book by
Scott Chacon, if you want to learn Git a little better.  It will help
make sense of branching, especially.

Ted