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Re: beginner's guide to arch for SXEmacs developers

From: Sebastian Freundt <hroptatyr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: beginner's guide to arch for SXEmacs developers
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:52:16 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.5 (chestnut, linux)
Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[snip]
> You forgot the most important thing, and I must say that I'm
> shocked... XEtla!
>
> Sexy interface to tla.  Get it from my Eicq repo...
>
>   steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://arch.eicq.org/
>
>   xetla--main--0.1

Yeah, of course! Just some more advertisement here:
XEtla is a more clean front-end to tla/gnu arch than any of the
predecessors have been.
Currently it's quite similar to xtla, but it's especially dedicated to
(S)XEmacs.

Anyone who's interested in helping:
Just branch off your personal branch from the mainline and start hacking
:).

You can inform Steve or me about ongoing development by just calling out a
merge request (either via IRC or email) like this:

  merge request: 
  tla replay hroptatyr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xetla--hrop--0.1--patch-10

Of course with your own archive and version data :)
(This command is especially helpful for us to merge in _your_ changes,
that's why you should post it everytime you want to see you contributions
in the main-line.)


Some more words for fiddling with your own branch of SXEmacs or xetla.
Everytime _you_ want to commit something _you_ have done, please make sure
you have an up-to-date working directory.

You can easily update your wd by (here with xetla as example):

  tla star-merge steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xetla--main--0.1
or
  tla replay steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xetla--main--0.1

Then if you want to change something, be sure to commit any pending stuff
you get from the sync to the main-line to your local archive:

  tla commit 

And afterwards do your changes, and commit them.

This helps to avoid confusion and -- more important -- conflicts since
your commit only carries the changes you've done to the archive.


Nonetheless, I hope you're not afraid by these instructions and if so you
may feel welcome to join!

Greets
hroptatyr


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