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Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipu
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation |
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Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:36:35 -0500 |
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> I think a plain `make` shouldn't perform a `git fetch` every time the
> Makefile changes. It's OK to require a `git fetch` in that case, but
> if/when the `git fetch` happens should be under the control of the user
> (i.e. should require some explicit step like `make update-elpa`).
I don't think it is right for 'make' to affect the source files people edit,
except in limited automatic ways.
There are sometimes reasons to continue building the same checkout --
perhaps making some local edits -- and excluding all other changes
that could confuse matters.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, (continued)
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/02
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/03
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/07
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/13
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/14
Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/02
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/02
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/03
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/03
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Robert Pluim, 2019/03/12