Re: What's the status of the emacs' git repo on savannah

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:22:39 -0700 (PDT), Francis Moreau 
<francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can't I use this repo to retrieve pre-release or something like ?
>
> In the repo, there are tags such as: EMACS_PRETEST_23_0_92.
>
> Is it 'safe' to use such revisions ?
>
> Also I saw that some people are using emacs 23.0.94. Where do they get
> this release if it's not in the dev repo ?

Hi Francis,

I cloned the Git repository a while back.  The last commit in the
origin/master branch is:

  commit c2f9b5857cc50663229ad3ec28608fe615ac9e34
  Author: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
  Date:   Sat May 30 00:31:59 2009 +0000

      * coding.c (get_translation_table): Check Venable_character_translation.

This is sufficiently recent, and I have pulled changesets from this in
my personal Mercurial clone.  The snapshot of Emacs that I built this
morning is:

  GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd8.0, GTK+ Version 2.16.2) of 
2009-06-04 on kobe

So, to the best of my knowledge, a short answer is: ``Yes, you can use
the git repository to build recent Emacs snapshots.''