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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-directory breakage
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:45:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <853aowah55.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y76ooj4k.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien Guerry's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 17:39:23 +0200")

Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> writes:
>>
>>> I apologize for the broken state of vc-directory.  I would not
>>> voluntarily have left it in a bad state, but I had an acute attack of
>>> viral gastroentritis yesterday.  Unsurprisingly, a hospital emergency
>>> room turns out not to be a good place from which to fix Lisp bugs.
>>
>> Actually, that is an argument for a distributed version control
>> system.
>
> That's also an argument for better wireless connection in hospitals.

With a DVCS, you need no connection at all for a workflow involving
version control.

> But that's also where it's cool to work together: even when you are
> completely down with a nasty gastroentritis, you can expect people to
> cheer you up by pointing out the positive aspects of all this!

There is not much I could say about gastroenteritis that would be
ontopic in emacs-devel.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 15:21 vc-directory breakage Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-05 15:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 15:39   ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 15:45     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-05 15:52       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 16:03         ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:23           ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 16:40             ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:50               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-05 17:00                 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 20:14               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 22:09             ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-05 22:17               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-06  0:04   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06  0:36     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06  0:48       ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06  1:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06  8:21           ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06  9:08             ` David Kastrup
2008-05-06 16:34             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-07  1:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06  1:10         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06  9:01           ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 12:03             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 16:03               ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06  6:36         ` David Kastrup

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