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 17:32:48 +0200 Message-ID: <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210001669 3164 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 15:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 17:35:06 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 1Jt2iN-00067Q-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2hf-0000PP-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2gR-0007e0-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2gQ-0007cW-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34766 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt2gQ-0007cN-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt2gP-00012q-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:54 -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-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328611F50CF; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:32:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE6FACF0B; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-121.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.121]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B446187850; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id F17151CC1A23; Mon, 5 May 2008 17:32:48 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Mon, 5 May 2008 11:21:49 -0400 (EDT)") 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-14.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:96499 Archived-At: "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. Even while one might need to group the work into non-working checkins for oneself at first, one can reorganize before pushing everything out to the public repository. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum