From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for documentation about version control Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:09:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vfce289d.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100038262 6679 80.91.229.6 (9 Nov 2004 22:11:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, Alex Ott , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 09 23:10:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CReCO-0003IT-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:10:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CReKo-00039j-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CReK4-0002se-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CReK4-0002rv-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CReK3-0002rr-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CReBa-0001o2-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CReBE-0001OT-9Y; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:36 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:34:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29676 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29676 Stefan Monnier writes: >> "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. > > I'd also suggest we don't recommend RCS any more. Why? I don't think we have anything else to recommend for versioning a single file, and without the need of a repository. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum