From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-update for bzr etc. Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:17 -0500 Message-ID: <8739qtw9le.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87y68m7kdh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lj4mk2e5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxp2bd12.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87k4k6c738.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290447008 12977 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2010 17:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 22 18:30:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKaDG-0005qD-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKaD8-0005sQ-2R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41070 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKaCe-0005ir-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKaCc-0003Q7-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po16.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.72]:50926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKaCc-0003Pu-KO; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014203.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po16.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id oAMHTHAO025101 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E667F160F66; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:39:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:133019 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> hg pull -- fetches branch, never updates workspace or affects a >> branch outside of the workspace. > > That's OK: "cvs pull" is even further from the above, so my suggestion > is not to "just pass `pull' to the backend command" but "run the normal > command to update the current tree by bringing in changes from > upstream". The trouble is that for Bzr, the "normal command to update the current tree" would be "bzr merge" (or "bzr merge --pull") if you're working in a task branch. I remain confused about what the intended use of "bzr pull" is. As far as I can tell, it's only used if someone wants a mirror of another branch that is never modified. But that seems like the less important case. > Based on what you say, vc-pull for Mercurial would not just do "hg > pull" but something more. Apparently, that would be "hg update tip".