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Re: Creating a git branch for cond*
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Creating a git branch for cond* |
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Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:08:37 +0000 |
Hello, Eli.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:53:51 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:48:18 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > Hello, Richard, Eli, and Emacs.
> > Richard posted some embryonic code for cond* a little over a week ago.
> > To move things forward, I propose creating the git branch
> > feature/condstar, and incorporating the new code into it in
> > lisp/emacs-lisp/condstar.el. This will enable its development to happen
> > more systematically and rapidly.
> > Does anybody have any objections?
> You intend to maintain that branch personally?
I'm prepared to do that, yes.
> If you intend for Richard to do that, it's up to him, I think.
Richard will surely respond to my last post. Let's see what he says.
> Having more than one branch in a repository complicates Git-related
> workflows, and could cause problems if the user pushes to the wrong
> branch. So it is not an easy decision.
It's clear from my code reviewing so far that cond* is not yet ready for
prime time. Creating a branch for it would be, I think, the normal
thing in Emacs development.
My main motivation is not to let the current impetus peter out.
But let's see what Richard says.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).