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Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?)
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Making the tarball with bzr data (was: bzr repository ready?) |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:15:25 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM, grischka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If I already have all the Emacs files locally (possibly with some
>> changes) how do I do to make this a bazaar thing? (This must be the
>> most common situation, or?)
>
> In any case you need to get the official emacs bazaar repository
> first.
Thanks grischka. I believe you, but this seems just crazy to me. What
are the reasons for this limitation? Are there any chances this can be
fixed?
> If you have personal changes, create a branch.
>
> Then, either:
> 1) copy your changed files over the ones in that branch
> 2) commit the resulting change as one single patch.
>
> Or, if you have more than one change and want to have separate
> commits for each, use a merge tool such as WinMerge:
> 1) compare your directory tree with the new development branch
> 2) For each feature:
> - copy the relevant chunks that affect the feature
> - commit with some message
> - repeat 2) until no differences are left.
>
> Then you could publish your branch for others to test or improve.
>
> HTH, grischka
>
>