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: How to switch Git branches with VC? Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:33:49 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141120173349.GB8690@thyrsus.com> References: <83mw7oa3up.fsf@gnu.org> <86h9xwnww0.fsf@yandex.ru> <831toz826d.fsf@gnu.org> <546E1024.5020707@yandex.ru> <83oas16byl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416504883 10119 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2014 17:34:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 18:34:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVcr-0002xR-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:34:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVcr-0001lp-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVck-0001gN-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVcg-0003il-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:41473 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVca-0003gi-33; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:34:20 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8781383162; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:33:49 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83oas16byl.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177884 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:00:36 +0200 > > From: Dmitry Gutov > > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > > But I really think we should have a set of VC > > > commands that deal with branches: create them, switch to them, remove > > > them, etc. > > > > Indeed. Maybe less related, but we could also use a 'merge' command and > > an 'amend' command (which is a fairly normal action when working on a > > branch, and will become more important when change logs are generated > > from commit messages). > > Agreed. Any takers? See my previous post. This is clearly my pigeon, and now that we've switched VCSes I can be much more active. I don't have current plans to fix merging, but I at least know what needs to be done about branching. -- Eric S. Raymond