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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:54:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IIdZ3-0003y8-B0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl6vfu7t.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (message from Michael Olson on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:40:54 -0400)

    > Relicensing a program is the sort of situation where you might
    > want to do this.

    What part does VC play in such a change?

You would use it to check in the files after relicensing.

    > We might want to arrange to automatically answer "yes" when it
    > asks whether to check out a deleted a file, if in batch mode.

    For any backend other than RCS, that would be bad.

This feature is meant for RCS.  Someone else proposed to turn
it off completely for other back ends.  That seems good to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 19:39 [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Michael Olson
2007-08-05 22:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-06  1:32   ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06  5:20     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06  2:36   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-06 16:33     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:07       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07  8:59           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:46       ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 21:22         ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 10:18           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:46               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:40           ` Michael Olson
2007-08-08  4:54             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-08-08 13:07               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 13:29               ` Michael Olson
2007-08-09  5:23                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 15:53         ` Edward O'Connor
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-06 19:16   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  0:44     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-07  3:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-07  6:07       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  6:51         ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 20:11         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:42           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09  0:06             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-09  0:17               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 16:38                 ` chad brown
2007-08-12 17:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15  4:14                     ` chad brown
2007-08-16  1:08                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 15:46                   ` Davis Herring

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