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: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:30:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4g2pxh3.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442655074 30635 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2015 09:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 19 11:31:06 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 1ZdEU3-0002Ld-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:31:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdEU2-0005LN-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdETq-0005L2-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdETp-00086c-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:34439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdETl-00085O-CJ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:30:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUX006003P4TI00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:30:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUX006ET3R7PC40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:30:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <876136lr83.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> 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:190083 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:59:24 +0200 > > I seem to remember that some RCS-only features were debated and possibly > dropped at that time because ESR (along with a lot of others) were not > terribly sympathetic towards complicating the generic framework because > of the possibility of its continued use (mostly expected to be due to > nostalgia). I guess you are referring to this discussion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg01164.html It talks about "rollback", whereas it seems that what was removed includes a possibility to tell RCS how to number the version it is about to commit.