From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:51:49 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fvcm5rqi.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418299262 30668 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 12:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:01:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 13:00:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2QQ-0003sq-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:00:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2QQ-0000MC-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2Pp-0000BE-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2Pd-0000KS-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:00:17 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2Pd-0000HE-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz2Pa-0003Ns-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:00:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:00:02 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:00:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j2vqwoMW0eWxHeoZzS4YUngUCr4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179740 Archived-At: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:21:38 -0500 (EST) esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) wrote: ESR> Rollback is a case in point. It is a command that lets you undo the ESR> last checkin. Only SCCS and RCS actually support it. Git possibly ESR> could, in theory, but the Git implementation would be tricky and have ESR> sharp edges when the last revision had been pushed. I think Git should support it anyway, with rollback to any commit. That's just a "git reset". It's useful. I don't see an issue with pushed revisions. If you want to reset and "push -f", that's a legitimate workflow. Otherwise, your push will be rejected. Ted