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: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:23:56 -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> <87lkcmtas4.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 1186636868 2590 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 05:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Olson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 07:21:05 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 1IJ0SG-0001N2-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:21:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJ0SF-0001Pl-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJ0SB-0001PE-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJ0S8-0001OG-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJ0S8-0001OD-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ0S8-0005f2-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ0V2-0005hh-SC; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:23:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lkcmtas4.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (message from Michael Olson on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:29:15 -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:76236 Archived-At: I would think that you'd want to review the changes manually before committing such a large change. Committing automatically (which is what I presume that you would use VC for, in this case) seems dangerous. You might do either one, depending. The point is that this is a reasonable use for VC commands in batch mode.