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: VC mode and git Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:19:36 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20150324181936.GA31705@thyrsus.com> References: <20150324163714.GA27775@thyrsus.com> <83y4mmpb1n.fsf@gnu.org> <20150324173536.GA30608@thyrsus.com> <83twxap92g.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 1427221212 27923 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2015 18:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 24 19:20:05 2015 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 1YaTQo-0006xX-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaTQn-0002h8-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaTQU-0002h3-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaTQT-0003JU-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:19:42 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38315 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaTQO-0003He-Ij; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A8EAC00A6; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:19:36 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83twxap92g.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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:184173 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > Because the knowledge as to whether the branch is intended to be private or > > public is an intention in the mind of the programmer, which git cannot read. > > Isn't there something in .git/refs/remotes/ that could disclose what's > on her mind? Even when a remote has been declared, git cannot know about any sequence of commits whether it's intended to be published to that remote. It might be exploratory programming, done with the option to reset to a prior state in mind. -- Eric S. Raymond