From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alex Ott <ott@jet.msk.su>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch for documentation about version control
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:32:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpt2mn1yy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfce289d.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "09 Nov 2004 12:21:34 -0600")
> Minor nit: from this sentence
> "The GNU project recommends RCS, CVS, and GNU Arch which are
> free software...",
> some readers could mistakenly infer that the other systems are *not*
> free software. And because of that lead-in, the next sentence about a
> free replacement for SCCS only strengthens the misimpression.
> Since Subversion and Meta-CVS are both free software, could this
> paragraph be tweaked? Here's one possible rewording:
> The Emacs version control interface is called VC. Its commands work
> with different version control systems---RCS, CVS, SCCS, Meta-CVS, GNU
> Arch and Subversion. The GNU project recommends and distributes
> RCS, CVS, and GNU Arch. We also have free software to replace
> SCCS, known as CSSC; if you are using SCCS and don't want to make
> the incompatible change to RCS or CVS, you can switch to CSSC.
Agreed,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-09 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-09 6:55 patch for documentation about version control Alex Ott
2004-11-09 9:13 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-12 9:11 ` Alex Ott
2004-11-09 18:21 ` Karl Fogel
2004-11-09 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-11-09 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-09 22:09 ` David Kastrup
2004-11-10 9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-10 9:22 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-10 16:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 11:55 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-11 15:11 ` Stefan
2004-11-11 15:36 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-11 15:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 16:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 18:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 20:59 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-12 9:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-10 9:30 ` Andre Spiegel
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