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: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:03:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83sit2tl6t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> <1388853707.11337.27.camel@Iris> <87zjnby4nu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388862282.11337.31.camel@Iris> <87bnzr8s03.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831u0mv1mw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140105164654.GB11245@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388941459 15369 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 17:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 17:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 18:04:25 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 1Vzr7g-0001nu-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:04:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzr7f-0005pt-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzr7Y-0005nr-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzr7S-00061s-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzr7S-00061k-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYX00500U22C400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:04:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYX00572U2W8030@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:04:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140105164654.GB11245@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:167378 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:46:54 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: =D3scar Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Eli Zaretskii : > > Not entirely a red herring, because the Emacs front-ends only sup= port > > a small fraction of the available commands. A cursory look into > > vc-git.el indicates that it uses about 10% to 20% of the git > > commands. >=20 > My goal in designing VC way back when was to capture the common > features of common workflows across multiple VCSes - where original= ly > in 1992 "multiple" meant SCCS and RCS. I was very focused on havin= g a > single command do the next logical thing in the checkout-edit-check= in > cycle. Yes, and that's a good goal. My point is that it necessarily leaves the less common commands out of scope, and thus CLI usage is still needed sometimes.