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bug#8650: git update has been broken for a while
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#8650: git update has been broken for a while |
Date: |
Mon, 16 May 2011 10:25:15 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> mirrors maintained by individuals on a personal-effort basis. Even
> though one is hosted on Savannah, it's still a read-only mirror, and not
> the main repository. It may start being updating again, or it may not.
> There is nothing that Emacs developers, in general, can (or should, IMO)
> do about it.
W.r.t the "should do", I do think we should both add a blurb like the
one you suggested below, and also try to find a way to keep the git
mirror uptodate (IIUC the main problem is that it's done by a single
individual. If it can be automated and/or performed by several
individuals, that would be great).
Stefan
> I think there ought to be a note on http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/
> saying that the git repository is an unofficial, read-only mirror
> provided as a convenience for users, and that it may be out-of-date with
> respect to the real repository by an arbitrary amount at any time.
> To be sure of being up-to-date, use the bzr repository.