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: VC mode and git Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55118B3F.3090408@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427367304 31784 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2015 10:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 11:54:56 2015 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 1Yb5R6-0004vv-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:54:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5R5-0007FQ-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qo-0006uj-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qn-0001ko-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qn-0001kk-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qn-0006rY-7F; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <55118B3F.3090408@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:05:19 +0200) 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:184289 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. ]]] > First and obvious reason, then there would be no way to commit without > pushing. And yes, that's a useful ability. If that is a useful ability we can easily make a command to do it. A minor drawback that can easily be overcome is not an argument against. > Second, even if we add a user option, this would be an attempt to paper > over That's what VC is for: to paper over the differences between different VC systems with a single uniform interface. the differences between the traditional VCS and the (modern) DVCS. It is a mistake to say that "modern" DVCs all work this way. BZR did not. I never had this problem with BZR. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.