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: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:30:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442767216 8529 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2015 16:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 20 18:40:04 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 1Zdhek-0004v4-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdhej-0006Yv-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdheg-0006Yd-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdhec-0002b5-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:12384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdhVC-0007aV-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:30:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0ArEwA731xV/2yixEVcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWKAsLNBIUGA2IWwjPIwErizqFDBaEFwWfF5IUghSBRSNhgQWCLiKCeAEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0ArEwA731xV/2yixEVcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWKAsLNBIUGA2IWwjPIwErizqFDBaEFwWfF5IUghSBRSNhgQWCLiKCeAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="165372707" Original-Received: from 69-196-162-108.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.162.108]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 20 Sep 2015 12:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8D2636614D; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:30:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:33:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:190142 Archived-At: > But as I learned from David and Eli that ESR, removed another feature, namely > undo-last-checkin AKA rollback. The most natural way to re-add tihs feature is to make vc-rcs.el understand the "Amend:" header that's also used by Git. In Git, this lets you mark the current commit as replacing the last one, instead of being a completely new one. So it seems to be exactly your use case. Stefan