From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80767 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: saving copies of the messages sent in Gnus Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:43:51 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87sjlw9c9d.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <87r51fvytj.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86aa82vwg4.fsf@gray.siamics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325756230 21673 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 09:37:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:37:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29049@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 05 10:37:07 2012 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 1Rijkw-00013b-Er for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:37:06 +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 1Rijkn-0006jz-Ja; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:36:57 -0600 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 1Rijkm-0006jq-JS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:36:56 -0600 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 1Rijki-00017q-4a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:36:56 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rijkg-000733-Nk for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rijkg-0000z5-F0 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:36:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iQwboVBFmr/O9GYhHKNIC+e38Jc= X-Spam-Score: -5.7 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80767 Archived-At: >>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka : >> Should we open an "mgnus" branch so that we don't lose patches like >> this, perhaps? > I don't want a branch, if anything, keeping up with two or more > branches is hard (at least) to me. FWIW git branches aren't as hard to work with as those of the other version control systems I've experience with. Actually, git branches are an essential part of a git based workflow. One makes short lived branches to save a series of commits (ie. a patch), and merge them right and left, and delete them when finished. Several versions of patch branches are possible: - one branch per patch (which is a bit of clutter, but keep different patches in nice, isolated, side tracks. The branches can be deleted, when the patches they contained are merged into the master branch) - an mgnus branch that can be used to collect patches Though it may seem like creating a lot of clutter, to people unfamiliar with git, I would actually recommend the first approach: store each patch as a feature branch made from master, and push the branch to git.gnus.org. Afterwards it is much easier to pick up the changes from the feature branch, than to collect a lot of patches floating around. And the feature branches can be deleted after they have been merged into master.