From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Two question about VC. Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:27:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503250327.j2P3RQO05390@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503240247.j2O2lve20934@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <1111657328.2424.31.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111722037 32621 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 03:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 04:40:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEfgX-0006mk-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEfvw-00023j-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEfvd-00021f-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEfvX-0001zA-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEfvW-0001wW-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DEfUc-0002Ni-K1; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2P3SD9N026332; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:28:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2P3RQO05390; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:27:26 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: spiegel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1111657328.2424.31.camel@localhost> (message from Andre Spiegel on Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:42:08 +0100) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35126 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35126 Andre Spiegel wrote: > Please note, however, that branches are not supported for SCCS. I am not sure about MCVS, SVN, and Arch, but if we support branches for all of them (which I tend to assume), then the replacement is correct. In the text I am going to install occurs earlier: + In the following, we discuss mainly RCS, SCCS and CVS. Nearly + everything said about CVS applies to Gnu Arch, Subversion and Meta-CVS + as well. "Nearly" allows for the possibility of some exceptions, so complete (well, let us hope) accuracy is only claimed for RCS, SCCS and CVS. Short of somebody familiar with all of MCVS, SVN, and Arch carefully going through the entire Emacs manual section on VC, I guess that we can not do better than that. The sentence: > Please note, however, that branches are not supported for SCCS. seems reasonably safe within that context. Several other claims in the Emacs section on VC only seem safe with the same qualifications. That final sentence could be clarified as: So we suggest that you return from time to time to CVS-only operation, committing your local changes back to the repository using 'C-u C-x v v cvs RET'. Thanks, that is what I am going to use. Sincerely, Luc.