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: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141211183649.GE581@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418402518 19459 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 16:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 17:41:53 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 1XzTHr-000305-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:41:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHr-0004Fp-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHg-00043N-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHc-000111-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHc-00010u-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHb-000276-He; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <20141211183649.GE581@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:179938 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Interesting idea. I think you are right that this is what people usually > want - "oops, I just committed something incomplete, let me get back to > the repo and workfile state just before I hit the button, with the commit > message stashed for re-use". > The question then becomes whether preserving the rollback methods we have > now gets us anywhere towards that. That was always the reason I used vc-rollback, and it seemed to do that job just fine. What's lacking? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.