From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:14:09 +1200 Message-ID: <18507.2097.163895.815111@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20080607125159.8A74F9F05B4@grelber.thyrsus.com> <20080607132037.GA21979@thyrsus.com> <20080607141452.GF1812@muc.de> <20080607152408.GG1812@muc.de> <20080607193747.GB1420@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212876886 1998 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 22:14:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 00:15:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K56h4-0007fg-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K56gH-0006uZ-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K56gB-0006uT-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:14:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K56g9-0006u9-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42468 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K56g9-0006u6-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:14:29 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:39227) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K56fz-0005nu-F9; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (11.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.11]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B933DA6C6; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:14:11 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4202E8FC6D; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:14:10 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <20080607193747.GB1420@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98639 Archived-At: > Well, that's one way to put it. An equally valid analysis would > be that -d ought to be the default rather than an option I've > never heard of before, and CVS is broken as designed. I'm surprised that you've not heard of it because it's needed for updating from a CVS repository each time a new directory is added. In recent years, for emacs that has mean't org, erc, gnus, mh-e... I'm not sure that it should be the default because using it with repositories which share source means that you pick up directories that you don't want, e.g., gdb shares with binutils and if you do: cvs checkout gdb 'sourceware url' i.e. the gdb module cd gdb cvs up -d you get the binutils directory. I think these are the quirks of VCses with which we have to become familiar. I wonder how bzr handles new directories. I'm sure it is better but, for me, CVS has the advantage of feeling like an old friend. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob