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 17:54:36 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20150324215436.GD3263@thyrsus.com> References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <83pp7yp5po.fsf@gnu.org> <20150324195638.GA2521@thyrsus.com> <83mw32p2s3.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 1427234156 22518 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2015 21:55:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 24 22:55:50 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 1YaWna-0005XH-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:55:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaWnZ-0003ti-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaWn2-0003ta-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaWn1-0001Cl-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39923 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaWmw-000185-Vx; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0B3E1C00A6; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83mw32p2s3.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:184186 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > So perhaps there should be a defcustom that would switch between > several popular workflows, and "C-x v v" could then support each one > of them, when chosen. In principle, possible. I'm concerned about our ability to anticipate all possible workflows well enough to define a set of policy variables that wouldn't be more straitjacket than help. A likely outcome seems to be paying a lot of complexity cost for little gain. That doesn't mean I'm trying to prevent a design discussion, though. My misgivings could be wrong. -- Eric S. Raymond