From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-status vs pcl-cvs Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:02:38 -0700 Message-ID: <200806061302.m56D2dWM013150@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <4845BA20.3070804@gnu.org> <18502.728.743890.14466@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18502.12890.517998.506464@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200806041601.m54G11P4004695@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200806041754.m54HsYjL029738@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200806050308.m5538Ybf017852@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200806051439.m55EdUWk020840@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212757553 31689 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2008 13:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , Sam Steingold , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 15:06:35 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 1K4be5-0006VT-A0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:06:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4bdI-0000FN-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4bcg-0008Nz-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4bcf-0008Nd-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54003 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4bcf-0008NU-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]:32919) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4bca-0000y8-6Z; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:44 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1213362159.66173@OtekropQXZw0mFOpGv2JOg Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m56D2dWM013150; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:02:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:52:24 -0400") Original-Lines: 13 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:98513 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > >> Yes, a command we absolutely need anyway: vc-pull. > > We do need the vc-pull command, but we don't need it for CVS _by default_. > > Why not? What else is there? Truncating the discussion in this way with deleting too much context does not help the dialog... vc-pull is needed in general, but forcing it to be used by default by avoiding the use of cvs status does not seem to be a good idea. Anyway we'll see what users actually think if someone actually implements this stuff.