bug#38136: [PATCH] Make gnus-group-get-new-news a non blocking thread

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 12/14/19 11:22 AM, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com wrote:
> EA> If you have access to the Emacs repos and are collaborating with others
> EA> who do, too, then it can make sense to push a "feature/foo" branch to the
> EA> repos, and share it.
>
> Someone was somehow able to upload a gnus feature branch in the
> official repo and get core devs to test it.
>
> It's described here
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-10/msg00689.html.
>
> Is this what you're referring to when you say "push a feature/foo"
> branch?

Yup, that's what I meant. The "feature/" prefix is one convention, as is
"scratch/" for temporary stuff, or using your own name/handle as a prefix.

> Currently when I "git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/git/emacs.git";, git
> just hangs.

According to https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs, it should be:

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git

Which works for me. Though, oddly, I've got:

girzel@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs.git

For my "member" remote, and that works fine. The two domain names seem
to point to the same server. Maybe it was the non-TLS url?

You'll need to be a member to push a branch, anyway.

Eric