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: Slow merge of vc.el begins: "focus version" Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071006083252.F366738032@snark> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191708278 12798 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2007 22:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 00:04:35 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 1IeHlB-0000fq-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:04:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeHl6-0002bP-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeHl3-0002bF-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeHl3-0002b3-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeHl3-0002b0-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from bas-flu-bbcs-dynip-209-209.vtx.ch ([83.228.209.209] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeHl2-0004jR-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 656E1B40AF; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:04:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20071006083252.F366738032@snark> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Sat\, 6 Oct 2007 04\:32\:52 -0400 \(EDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:80354 Archived-At: > "Workfile version" is, I believe, strictly an Emacsism these days. It > becomes inappropriate and misleading when we are speaking of a VCS in > which version numbers are not a per-file property but associated with > changesets. In the latest vc.el I've seen you've used "current focus version", but I see no need for "focus" here (and I prefer "revision" to "version" here as well), so why not "current revision"? It's a terminology that I've often seen used. Stefan