From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69616 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The Gnus repository is switching to Git as of 2010-04-19 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87zl0xlajm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <878w8jmjly.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fx2qgrdw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878w8hevp6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aasxmyo8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271822452 8286 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2010 04:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 06:00:51 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4R7K-0001EL-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:00:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4R7K-00034I-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O4R7F-00033M-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58073 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4R7B-00032O-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4R7A-0008Rl-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:45345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4R7A-0008Re-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3158F1537B5; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 123841A34EE; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:30 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123959 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69616 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I think your "that" is not what I was talking about, because I know for > a fact it works. You've managed what is conceptually a single body of content, using two separate trees, both actively developed, with persistently different names for the same file(s), and bidirectional merging? > >> It should be just as easy for a branch as for the trunk. > > Maybe. I worry about ghost revisions appearing when you do a git->bzr > > sync, and that's where they are most likely since git users branch > > with abandon then abandon the branches, while it's no fun to try to > > work with Bazaar that way. Note that ghost revisions causes nasty > > bugs in bzr as recently as a few weeks ago. > > Ghost revisions are a problem for Bzr implementers, not users. Surely a "can't do operation X because revision Y not found" error is a problem for users. I believe the particular operation was "branch".