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: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:22:54 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080506182254.GA11192@thyrsus.com> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506162247.GD10771@thyrsus.com> <87myn3tma4.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210098153 19927 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 18:22:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 18:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul R Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 20:23:06 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 1JtRof-0000hR-2W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 20:23:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtRnx-0004nS-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtRnt-0004nD-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtRnn-0004my-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45223 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtRnn-0004mv-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtRnn-0000Bt-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BD6A9F054C; Tue, 6 May 2008 14:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87myn3tma4.fsf@gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:96609 Archived-At: Paul R : > "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > > > Ah, that's good to know. I know that SCCS and RCS don't do directory > > arguments at all, and I believe that Subversion and everything after > > handles them pretty well. > > Mercurial does not manage directories at all, but it will not complain > if passed a directory as parameter where a file is expected. It will > silently do nothing. Then I have to do filename expansion there, too. -- Eric S. Raymond