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: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:01 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141212174501.GB26351@thyrsus.com> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141211183649.GE581@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418406378 20001 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 17:46:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 18:46:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUI6-00077O-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUI6-0006qC-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUHY-0006jG-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUHU-0007a9-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:47701 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUHT-0007Zp-UN; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DC19C008E; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:01 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179946 Archived-At: Richard Stallman : > > Interesting idea. I think you are right that this is what people usually > > want - "oops, I just committed something incomplete, let me get back to > > the repo and workfile state just before I hit the button, with the commit > > message stashed for re-use". > > > The question then becomes whether preserving the rollback methods we have > > now gets us anywhere towards that. > > That was always the reason I used vc-rollback, and it seemed to do > that job just fine. What's lacking? Leaving the *modified* workfile in place rather than reverting it. -- Eric S. Raymond