Re: Subversion and Emacs VC

> I think this is a great idea, *but* we need to make sure the people
> currently working on vc-svn.el get commit access on the new vc-svn.el
> in the Emacs tree. In particular, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>.

That's the rub: they need to sign papers to make sure the FSF has
the copyright over the file. Once that's done, getting write access
is easy: get a savannah.gnu.org account (can be done online) and then
ask one of the administrators of the Emacs project to add them
to the people who get write-access.

> I conjecture that Kalle would be happy to transfer over recent
> bugfixes, and then maintain the one in the Emacs tree from now on,
> assuming it's not too bureacratically complicated for him to get to
> work.

In the mean time I intend to keep an eye on Subversion's vc-svn.el
to try and keep Emacs' own version uptodate.

>> I finally took a look at the vc-svn.el file in Subversion's
>> repository and discovered that it's not much better than
>> my quick&dirty first attempt.

> ...I'm not sure which first attempt you're referring to. As far as I
> knew, the vc-svn.el in Subversion's repository was written by Jim
> Blandy. (I'm mentioning this only because I want to make sure Jim
> gets credited for the work he did...)

Back in December 2001, I did a first attempt at getting VC working
with Subversion. I never distributed it and I later on learned that
Jim Blandy had made one of his own (not sure when he did it, tho).

The vc-svn.el I installed in Emacs has no code taken from Subversion's
vc-svn.el, although it does have a few ideas taken from there.

        Stefan

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Received on Wed May 7 21:19:54 2003