Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Converting AUCTeX CVS to a modern dVCS

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> Neither git not bzr have some sync-between-different-repos support,
>> so I don't think there's any benefit in either direction.
>
> Hm? git has submodule support.  You can pull to and push to a
> submodule.  To make this useful with regard to Emacs/AUCTeX, the Emacs
> part of AUCTeX would have to be contained in a separate subdirectory.

You mean in emacs there was lisp/textmodes/auctex/ and in auctex we'd
move the lisp files into a separate directory auctex/lisp/ (a
submodule), and between those we could sync?

> I don't know if Bazaar has anything akin to that.

There's a ticket: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/769629

> Any kind of automatic repository sync would require a compatible
> directory organization, and I somewhat doubt that this would be easy
> to achieve.

Probably.

Bye,
Tassilo