From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Slow merge of vc.el begins: "focus version" Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:55:51 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071006135551.GA15072@thyrsus.com> References: <20071006083252.F366738032@snark> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191678944 31377 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2007 13:55:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John S. Yates, Jr." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 15:55:39 2007 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 1IeA82-0001JQ-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:55:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeA7x-0005js-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeA7v-0005jn-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeA7t-0005jO-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeA7t-0005jL-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeA7s-0003h1-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: by snark (Postfix, from userid 23) id 4CF9A38032; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80331 Archived-At: John S. Yates, Jr. : > Given that the various supported vc backend use different terminology > I would to see a table listing emacs vc concepts and terms with the > corresponding terminology for each backend. Good idea. You could probably develop such a table without much difficulty, and I encourage you to do so. It's not good for the long-term maintainence prospects of the mode that so few people understand this mapping of abstractions well. At the moment the set consists of myself and, probably, Stefan Monnier. A third would be a good thing. -- Eric S. Raymond