From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:54:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <200708052206.l75M63Hx012575@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <877io99yoh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87zm14ie76.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <87sl6vfu7t.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186548721 1644 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 04:52:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Olson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 06:51:59 2007 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 1IIdWU-0007qU-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:51:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIdWU-0007pG-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIdWF-0007cT-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIdWE-0007bG-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIdWE-0007bA-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIdWE-0001HP-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIdZ3-0003y8-B0; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:54:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sl6vfu7t.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (message from Michael Olson on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:40:54 -0400) X-Detected-Kernel: 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:76179 Archived-At: > 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.