From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multiple definitions of the term "fileset" Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:15:09 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071011121509.GF6804@thyrsus.com> References: Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192104910 8122 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2007 12:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 14:15:08 2007 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 1IfwwV-0007Ty-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:15:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfwwM-0005zS-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfwwJ-0005yu-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfwwI-0005yL-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfwwI-0005yH-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ifwvv-0006L1-GG; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: by snark (Postfix, from userid 23) id C321538032; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:15:09 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80600 Archived-At: Richard Stallman : > You added a lot of text in files.texi which talks about "filesets" in > connection with version control. This causes a problem because the > term "fileset" is already used in a different way. Search files.texi > for `@node Filesets'. (I warned you about this clash a few months > ago.) I replied at the time that the term 'fileset' is *not* in fact used in a different way, though the filesets themselves are. In both cases, the term 'fileset' refers to a list of files used as the implied scope for a group of operations of interest. What differs is only the operations of interest: in VC they are about version control, onder the Filesets node they are visiting and search/replace. The parallelism in terminology is not a bug, it's a feature. Same concept, same term. To invent a different one would be to multiply entities beyond necessity. You didn't reply, so I assumed you either agreed or no longer thought the case for a distinction strong enough to argue. > Aside from that, several new node names do not follow our > usual conventions, and some are too long. I would be happy to fix these. Are the conventions documented somewhere you can point me at? -- Eric S. Raymond