Re: RFC: Moving CEDET development to Emacs

Nicolas Richard writes:
> David Engster <[email protected]> writes:
>> Nicolas Richard writes:
>>> IIUC they are both git branches,
>>
>> Unfortunately, no. They are completely separate repositories.
>
> But, they are git repos, right ? In this case they are git branches. The
> fact that they are not in the same repo right now is not a problem as
> examplified below :

[...]

Thanks for explaining. I now understand what you mean.

Indeed, we could do that, but you already mentioned the downsides (no
common ancestry, huge diff). Also, we cannot import the whole CEDET
history, since that would include lots of files that were never part of
Emacs and also files for which authors did not give copyright to the
FSF. So I guess we'd first have to separate those file through a subtree
split or something similar. It would be a lot of work, and I also very
much doubt that the Emacs maintainers would accept a merge like that
(we're talking 20 years of history here). Besides, I currently cannot
take a week off from work to discuss this on emacs-devel. ;-)

-David

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