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: RCS: (vc-next-action 1) only New Backend Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:40:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83wpvkop4r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mvwjohyi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <838u83r6hl.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2rn5ucg.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <837fnmrizs.fsf@gnu.org> <877fnm4wzn.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <876136lr83.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83y4g2pxh3.fsf@gnu.org> <871tdulodu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83twqqpu91.fsf@gnu.org> <55FD87DE.3030506@yandex.ru> <83pp1epb17.fsf@gnu.org> <55FD9E4D.8080909@yandex.ru> <83lhc2pae8.fsf@gnu.org> <55FDBB3B.1070706@yandex.ru> <878u82ru1j.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83h9mppqqn.fsf@gnu.org> <55FEB04C.4090205@yandex.ru> <83a8shp2n3.fsf@gnu.org> <8337y9ow3v.fsf@gnu.org> <831tdtovv3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442778077 3806 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2015 19:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 20 21:41:08 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 1ZdkTu-0004Cz-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkTt-000647-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkTh-00063y-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkTe-0004zi-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:64261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkTd-0004zY-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUZ00K00QNILV00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:40:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUZ00KYXQNWEH90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:40:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:190153 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:25:21 -0400 > > > And, btw, the removal of the capability to specify a revision didn't > > remove the prefix argument, it just limited its meaning to specifying > > a different back-end. > > That's the point: it leaves the C-u to be used for something else which > is not useful only for RCS but potentially for all backends. > > I'm perfectly OK with providing the ability to specify the revision > number to use (in vc-rcs.el). What I'm opposed to is to add special > support for that in the generic code. It can all be done within > vc-rcs.el using log-edit-extract-headers. Once again, specifying a revision at check-in time is not limited to RCS, it is also supported by CVS and SCCS.