From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit] Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:03:43 +0300 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bmouvu5z.fsf@jane> <87tw2lf6l1.fsf_-_@trurl.irif.fr> <87lgnvr4mh.fsf@jane> <838tjvjaz7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499789237 4575 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 16:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:07:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/54.0 Cc: rms@gnu.org, jch@irif.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 18:07:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUxgl-0000Uc-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUxgr-0004xC-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUxf2-0003g2-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUxex-0002Yb-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr0-f180.google.com ([209.85.128.180]:36837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUxew-0002Jz-Od; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr0-f180.google.com with SMTP id c11so5145286wrc.3; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CErNCD6pEtPI0r9YAUHi/nw6NQ5jnjbo7CbI+gcPLPk=; b=MTihOZt8ehIXCtd4m2VP0ccYOLaMGguVw7gJvLE0ShdMSo45DRqEOd3EOzVocTKyiy 6IoCbMJdwkZu1oMTJKLY4uGELtpwHdSuhlEX9d3qp5r5Tv9kt+bAwEWNsWaic4E2zCxW nmeejJGDeQFDnPfJerqfCpGKa4WHb3ge77RoS6sCOK+fovR5Fe6Z82w4WvjgUqftY9Gf CQ44FcEwd/nBFL4qgNVgPQnAj1Gayz595j6n9GvF1CLQhpBwV1LaX0Kf4Gw9kmofGkzO xNZsbG+eFZhpbQOFboTesRuhRpad7f8F5zSVIoWmKgbQFGYu0jw+BizVVxyHinDYTxio 9IyQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CErNCD6pEtPI0r9YAUHi/nw6NQ5jnjbo7CbI+gcPLPk=; b=KkEbIuAEkvjTSCcu3ah8MwxRrrBOBBT3fTFWkYA574DRPvRXX/VVwN3ZII0p+zQtZb JcqWZQrzVHbtr4NFWmyEtrlPVHoSfK8EOtBrcQBo/ufYxA+64O6KTqBl7hwT/OLgUdut 0hgNNeEJHqXzCBHZSgFd6AWN1EKRtPPm2gJbb2BF2FKyFbWbd13+0rugnydIlJLSvURR EC1nXLp/PJg118AQDYjIhirgtFiMGUH3DqqebhrKSTX9yVJxIuZRDi/AEfawI1IUjar3 00EmobPoGZC/WJ1Flrqw0V4Nm7cl1uo5c1H8VdKd2jDFZu3WFJ+/QYlcgKxNjgVEtfYD bRgw== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113SMeXnEjwibGRPIxzIjS1MLz3le2ZIyOh+SagYBmJQtbepVn4X wqgAOQXkAZeQ8A63OLI= X-Received: by 10.223.172.15 with SMTP id v15mr392503wrc.84.1499789027010; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([185.105.174.193]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id q24sm320760wra.16.2017.07.11.09.03.44 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:03:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <838tjvjaz7.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.128.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216486 Archived-At: On 7/11/17 5:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Reasonable for Magit, since it supports only Git. Not sure about VC: > staging is a Git-only feature, whereas VC tries to abstract the user > from the backend as much as possible. Since VC does not offer staging as a feature anyway, for Git and other backends it would mean to offer to commit all edited files in the given repository.