From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79452 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Where are group parameters stored? Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:23:23 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87tyaqiwj8.fsf@dod.no> References: <8762ncnb5a.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310534729 21141 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2011 05:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:25:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27748@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 13 07:25:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qgrwq-0001XH-Ub for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:25 +0200 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 1Qgrwk-0005QR-66; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qgrwe-0005Q6-8l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qgrwa-0005iE-73 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QgrwY-0000ww-Ry for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgrwY-0001TS-3Y for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 178.16.69.64 ([178.16.69.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 178.16.69.64 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.16.69.64 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:svODHL/DY2arBZ342XQ1OGKHfeg= X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79452 Archived-At: >>>>> Dave Abrahams : > IIUC, .newsrc.eld changes very dynamically (e.g. storing article > marks), whereas group parameters are the sort of thing I'd probably > want to check into a Git repository somewhere. Am I missing > something? Nope. You're right on track. The discussion for a .newsrc.eld split, for precisely the reasons you state, have been discussed several times in this group. Should be in the archives. Right now, what happens with .newsrc.eld, will probably be determined what happens with "cloud gnus" or "gnus-sync", in the next development cycle of gnus.