From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:53:30 +1300 Message-ID: <18298.43082.391589.308682@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20071231130712.GB8641@thyrsus.com> <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199220881 27884 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2008 20:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@snark.thyrsus.com To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 01 21:55:00 2008 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 1J9o8U-000885-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:54:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9o88-0007p4-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9o7K-0007Wj-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9o7I-0007Vj-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9o7I-0007Vb-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J9o7A-0008N3-QW; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (224.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.224]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2353DA1FA; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:53:31 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D7B08FC6D; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:53:31 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.50.20 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:85820 Archived-At: > > o - They must support "batch mode" working, for RMS and others who > > concentrate fiercely on a single activity at a time. > > git has such a batch mode, while CVS has none. So for Richard, git > would be a much better choice than CVS since he could commit very > small units while being off-line. More than that, I think you have a copy of the whole repository locally, so you can look at logs, earlier revisions etc while off-line. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob