Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I don't see why you would need more than one tree to work with at any
>> given point of time.
>
> I often work for example with 4 branches: the 22 branch, the trunk, the
> unicode branch, and my own branch with its local hacks.  I switch
> between them often enough that using a single tree and switching within
> the tree would be a real pain in the *** because of the need to rebuild
> all the .o and .elc files after each switch.

Hm?  Why do you build Emacs in-place, then?  I understand the need for 4
build directories, but do you really need 4 source directories?  And
even 4 repositories?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum