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 mode and git Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:35:36 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20150324173536.GA30608@thyrsus.com> References: <20150324163714.GA27775@thyrsus.com> <83y4mmpb1n.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1427218607 14031 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2015 17:36:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 24 18:36:39 2015 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 1YaSki-0006p3-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:36:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaSkh-0006w4-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaSkP-0006vw-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaSkO-00007p-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:37681 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaSkI-00005v-Qw; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F889C00A6; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:35:36 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83y4mmpb1n.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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:184168 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > Why cannot VC determine whether a branch is private or not? > > I'm not saying I think "C-x v v" should push -- I don't -- but the > reason you bring up doesn't sound as a serious one. Because the knowledge as to whether the branch is intended to be private or public is an intention in the mind of the programmer, which git cannot read. -- Eric S. Raymond