From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RCS: (vc-next-action 1) only New Backend
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:00:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tdulodu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4g2pxh3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:30:48 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 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.
Entirely possible that this is what I remembered. However, the
responsible commit turns out to be a good match to my vague recollection
regarding content, commit message, date and author:
commit 2f4f92007956983e6f5cb5136a57ddaa0cd9428e
Author: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon Dec 1 06:23:10 2014 -0500
VC API simplification: remove ability to set initial revision.
This hasn't made any sense since RCS, and was a dumb stunt then.
* vc/vc.el and all backends: API simplification; init-revision is
gone, and vc-registered functions no longer take an initial-revision
argument.
and so my comments regarding the likely reaction to a wish for
resurrection of that feature are probably not wide off the mark.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-18 15:39 RCS: (vc-next-action 1) only New Backend Uwe Brauer
2015-09-18 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-18 20:46 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 8:46 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-19 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 9:36 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 10:00 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-09-19 10:30 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 10:58 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-19 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 12:29 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 21:15 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 16:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-19 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 17:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-19 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 19:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-19 21:14 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 22:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-20 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 13:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-20 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-20 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-20 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 20:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-21 2:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 14:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 16:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 17:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 5:30 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-21 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-21 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 23:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-21 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-20 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-19 9:31 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-19 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-20 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 9:35 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-19 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-19 10:35 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-20 10:05 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-09-20 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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