From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-w3m? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:10:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83635hcmmn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3E1D063D-AC8A-4E40-B9F8-6ACA5089C4A7@gmail.com> <873a0p1dqt.fsf@telefonica.net> <87r5o9yr4y.fsf@telefonica.net> <87mxywzx2r.fsf@telefonica.net> <87ocjcejeo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83r5o8l3oo.fsf@gnu.org> <873a0nyqjx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sk8nx7ba.fsf@telefonica.net> <83y6iedi2e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267377556 20561 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 17:19:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 18:19:10 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlmnN-00051g-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlmgj-0004Sg-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlmer-0003nt-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59179 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlmep-0003my-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlmeo-0008Mj-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:52713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlmen-0008MR-M7; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYK00K00A1R2300@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:10:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.17.203]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYK00KHFACN7A00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:10:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:121472 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:03:41 -0500 > > Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will implicitly > add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means you should never > need to explicitly add a directory, they ll just get added when you > add a file in the directory. > > The second sentence explains the rationale behind this feature. But > in this case, Bob mistakenly added a single file, and that ended up > adding the whole directory. By contrast, "cvs add" is explicitly > non-recursive, AFAIR. > > The feature is clearly a convenience in the case where you are not > making a mistake. Should `bzr add' ask for confirmation before doing > this? Maybe, at least as an option. There's also the use-case of calling bzr from Emacs, which we should take into consideration: is interaction supported in that case?