From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:42:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019214206.GA710@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IibfG-0004A7-QW@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> In principle it could work to make "file set" a general term, if we
> have two suitable specific terms for the two specific concepts used in
> these two features. But that proposal has trouble in the details:
> if we use the terms "VC fileset" and "fileset", it sounds like the
> former is a special case of the latter.
>
> Can you modify it to solve the problem?
That's easy. The real difference isn't between "used in VC" and elsewhere,
it's in the lifetime and source of the fileset.
A few additions to the manual can address this.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 21:42 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
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 [this message]
2007-10-21 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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