Re: another gnulib update

[Eric Blake]

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According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/25/2007 2:22 PM:
> 
> My problem is that I don't know how to pick a snapshot date that
> will include recent fixes to modules M4 cares about, but not
> destabilizing changes that occured in the same timeframe.
> 
> I'm thinking about making an effectively local branch of gnulib as
> M4 releases approach so that I can manually apply just the gnulib
> patches that matter to M4 without accidentally picking up one
> of the module reorganizations patches that occur in gnulib
> relatively often.

Eventually, when the move to git is complete, doing this will be easy -
you just make a branch in your local git copy of gnulib, and base your m4
release off of that branch.

But so far, it has not been too much of an issue - I have been actively
tracking gnulib often enough that when I have made releases (1.4.5 through
1.4.8b), the gnulib snapshot on the date of my release has been stable
enough for the purpose of a release.

> Is there perhaps some way to cleverly tag the CVS tree of gnulib to
> avoid this problem?

In CVS, not really,  In git, yes.  Which is why I am still anxious for the
git transition to complete.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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