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: vc-directory breakage Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:04:56 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080506000456.GA14206@thyrsus.com> References: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210032357 12830 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 00:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 00:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 02:06:31 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 1JtAhN-0002HR-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 02:06:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtAge-0003G5-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtAfO-0002aY-2x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtAfM-0002ZB-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59556 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtAfM-0002Z1-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:20 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtAfJ-0001bL-GJ; Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 51F9B9F054B; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:96549 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > > I apologize for the broken state of vc-directory. I would not > > voluntarily have left it in a bad state, but I had an acute attack of > > viral gastroentritis yesterday. Unsurprisingly, a hospital emergency > > room turns out not to be a good place from which to fix Lisp bugs. > > Actually, that is an argument for a distributed version control system. > Even while one might need to group the work into non-working checkins > for oneself at first, one can reorganize before pushing everything out > to the public repository. Agreed. :-) To my knowledge, VC is not in a broken state now. Stefan fixed one of the blocker bugs yesterday, probably while I was flat on my back and hooked up to a heart monitor, and I got the other one this morning. I am mostly recovered, though I am still in some pain through having strained some back muscles during the more violent nausea episodes. Trust me when I say you do not want this crap to happen to you... -- Eric S. Raymond