From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:39 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186578471 23469 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 13:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Olson , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 15:07:49 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 1IIlGO-0007HZ-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIlGO-0003Ye-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIlGL-0003YR-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIlGJ-0003YB-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIlGJ-0003Y8-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34] helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIlGG-0001E2-NK; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.193.128]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070808130739.YQNH13659.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7ED36856E; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:07:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 08 Aug 2007 00\:54\:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:76198 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. Most likely, you'd want a single commit for all the files, so except in backends like RCS and SCCS which only work on a file-by-file basis, the current VC wouldn't be of any use (when it gets fileset support that may change somewhat). > This feature is meant for RCS. Someone else proposed to turn > it off completely for other back ends. That was me. > That seems good to me. OK, I'll make the change. Stefan