From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:37:01 +0900 Message-ID: <87tzl75bcy.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <4pd9g15e.fsf@blue.sea.net> <200801211552.m0LFq2Wm012283@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200937063 15264 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 17:37:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jari Aalto , jaalto@cante.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 18:38:02 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 1JH0au-0002Tr-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:38:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0aU-0003Xm-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0aE-0003OS-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0aC-0003Nf-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JH0aC-0003NX-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JH0a5-0003HD-CS; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-223.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.223] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JH0a0-00066f-W8; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:37:05 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CCE632F4D; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:37:02 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200801211552.m0LFq2Wm012283@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:51:58 -0800") Original-Lines: 25 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87223 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > It partially does, there are (BIG) missing pieces in the vc-git > implementation: vc-update and branching are not implemented. > > For vc-update: none of vc-git, vc-bzr and vc-hg implement it. vc-update > needs work in order to support these systems properly, they want to > merge on a whole project basis instead of file basis as vc-update > currently does. Of course part of the problem is that vc-update seems like a hopelessly antiquated interface -- who wants to do merging on a file-by-file basis?! > And the UI for those 2 things is not good at all in Git. > (The underlying functionality works very well, but it is quite hard to > use if you don't have a thorough understanding on how Git works > inside...) What do you mean? [There are confusing things in git, but that hardly seems one of them...] -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson