From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-directory breakage Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:45:58 +0200 Message-ID: <853aowah55.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y76ooj4k.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210002437 5990 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 15:47:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Guerry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 17:47:53 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jt2ut-0002wt-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:47:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2uB-0007Bk-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2t9-0005xG-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2t7-0005tx-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58032 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2t7-0005tn-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt2t6-00046x-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A4531E908; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:45:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D95ABB94; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:45:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-121.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.121]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164163425E3; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B41671CC1A23; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:45:58 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87y76ooj4k.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien Guerry's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 17:39:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7033/Mon May 5 17:00:00 2008 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:96502 Archived-At: Bastien Guerry writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> "Eric S. Raymond" 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