[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?)
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?) |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:34:32 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But the hard part is to integrate those 3 starting points with the
>> "wget+untar" approach.
>
> There is a very simple & safe method for creating a tarball that just
> requires untarring at the other end.
>
> First, create a bound branch of `trunk' on a shared repository [1]:
>
> bzr init-repo emacs-repo
> bzr checkout http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk
>
> Now, the process of creating the tarball is:
>
> cd emacs-repo/trunk
> bzr update
> cd ../..
> tar the emacs-repo directory
>
> The user just needs to download and untar to get a shared repository
> containing `trunk' with read-only access to the GNU repository. A `bzr
> update' is enough to get the latest changes and thus have a mirror of
> the branch on the GNU repository.
>
> If the user is an emacs hacker with write access rights, he does:
>
> cd emacs-repo/trunk
> bzr unbind
> bzr bind sftp://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk
>
> And he is ready to start committing. [2]
>
> If the user needs access to other branches, obtaining them with bazaar
> just requires a few minutes, as only those revisions which are not
> common with `trunk' will be downloaded.
>
> If the user prefers other workflows, he has everything he needs, as he
> can create branches from the mirror bound branch or unbind the mirror
> branch, so this method is not restricted to the "bound work branch"
> workflow.
If I already have all the Emacs files locally (possibly with some
changes) how do I do to make this a bazaar thing? (This must be the
most common situation, or?)
- Re: bzr repository ready?, (continued)
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/25
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Richard Stallman, 2009/11/25
- Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?), Óscar Fuentes, 2009/11/23
- Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?),
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Making the tarball with bzr data, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/11/30
- Re: Making the tarball with bzr data, Jason Earl, 2009/11/30
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Chong Yidong, 2009/11/18
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/18
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Andreas Schwab, 2009/11/18
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Ken Raeburn, 2009/11/19