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: My plans for VC mode Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:34 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141122164134.GD25909@thyrsus.com> References: <20141122133351.46279382C23@snark.thyrsus.com> 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 1416674512 18161 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2014 16:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Eric S. Raymond" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 17:41:46 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 1XsDkn-0000Ko-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:41:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDkn-00042L-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDkh-0003vK-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDkd-0000Bn-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:35207 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDkc-0000Bj-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B50AB382B8A; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:41:34 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:178027 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > I'm fine with breaking backward compatibility. But then please try to > find "all" the out-of-tree backends for Free revision control systems, > and then try to find their maintainer to get them in the loop. I'd be happy to get the maintainers involved, but I don't have any idea how to go about finding the out-of-tree back ends. Help would be appreciated. > If you're about to redesign the backend API, I'll take the opportunity > to include my pet wishitems for VC which I never got to address: > - async operation for most operations (including "commit" and "status"). > - generic support for shelve/stash. I think shelve-stash will be dead easy. You're the second person to bring up async operation. I don't have a clear idea of what that means. -- Eric S. Raymond