Re: casual contributing with git

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-05-22, at 07:31, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 06:48:25 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>> 
>> 
>> On 2019-05-19, at 03:41, Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:51, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Workspaces are cheap; I keep a full checkout of master, and one of each
>> >> branch I'm working on, at all times.
>> >
>> > Is that the recommended way ?
>> 
>> Of course not!  (At least, not as far as Git goes in general - but
>> I don't think there is some Emacs idiosyncrasy here.)
>
> In a way, there is: the branches in Emacs tend to diverge very
> quickly, so after a while, if you switch branches in the same tree,
> the builds become very long, and worse: you need to bootstrap each
> time to avoid problems in the built Emacs.  It quickly becomes very
> inconvenient.

Thanks for the info, good to know!

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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