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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:23:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710121523.l9CFNpOG008776@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvve9d87ik.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu\, 11 Oct 2007 21\:08\:53 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> Not about "checkout" which sometimes means "update" and sometimes "get".
  > > Speaking of "update", vc-update needs to be rethought a bit.
  > > Mercurial, bzr and git (maybe other systems too) don't seem to want to
  > > do merges based on a file, but on changesets.
  > > What should we do about that?
  > 
  > Those backends should simply signal an error if requested to update
  > something less than the whole tree.

So what would the UI be for that?
vc-BACKEND-merge-news currently has a `file' parameter. 
Should backends check if it is a directory, and then run the merge
command? 
Who is responsible for updating all the buffers for files that have
been changed by the merge?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 14:30 Another VC terminology change? Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 18:05   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 20:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 20:19       ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12  1:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12  0:45   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12  1:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 15:23       ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2007-10-12 16:25         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 16:47           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 17:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 21:28               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-13  3:36                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 17:50   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12  8:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-12 15:59     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 20:02       ` Miles Bader
2007-10-13  6:41         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 21:42           ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-15 16:03             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 17:42               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 21:37                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-18 20:08                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-19 21:42                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-21  7:27                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12  8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii

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