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: (vc-next-action 1) only New Backend Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mvwjohyi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <838u83r6hl.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2rn5ucg.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <837fnmrizs.fsf@gnu.org> <877fnm4wzn.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <876136lr83.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4g23gc9.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83mvwipakn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442693973 429 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2015 20:19:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 19 22:19:22 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 1ZdObQ-0006IB-9D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdObP-0005pM-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdOam-0005HY-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdOam-0002qY-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:5746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdOai-0002oB-BX; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:18:36 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AxFgA731xV/2yixEVcgxCEAoVVu0CHSwQCAoE8OxIBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSINwjPIwEBAQEGAgEfizqFBQeELQWzP4FFI2GDMyKCeAEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0AxFgA731xV/2yixEVcgxCEAoVVu0CHSwQCAoE8OxIBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSINwjPIwEBAQEGAgEfizqFBQeELQWzP4FFI2GDMyKCeAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="165329789" Original-Received: from 69-196-162-108.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.162.108]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 19 Sep 2015 16:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DF83962376; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:18:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mvwipakn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:45:28 +0300") 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:190115 Archived-At: >> > Be it as it may, I have tons of files under RCS, so I am not very keen >> > to try to migrate them to git. >> It should be pretty easy to migrate them to SRC, on the other hand. > It might; but then I see no reason for us to require users to do > that. RCS is still pretty useful on its own right, as long as you > maintain small projects. Just because some of us don't like it > doesn't mean others could not use it. Agreed, but adding support to the generic VC code for a feature that can only exist in that one backend (and is not even very widely used by users of this backend) is kind of problematic. I think the closest functionality in current backends might be the ability to tag revisions, so if we could somehow map VC's support for tagging to this RCS quirk I'd be a lot more satisfied. Stefan