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: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:31:22 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20150325163122.GA24458@thyrsus.com> References: <20150324163714.GA27775@thyrsus.com> <83y4mmpb1n.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhim9sqp.fsf@igel.home> 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 1427301155 9666 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2015 16:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 17:32:30 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 1YaoE9-0000go-LQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:32:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaoE9-0005H0-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaoDq-0005Gc-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaoDl-0002sA-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:49320 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaoDh-0002r9-Jt; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE566C00A6; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:184231 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab : > Richard Stallman writes: > > > The reason to make this change is to help people who are not > > sophisticated git users. > > For those people it is even more important that vc does not push by > default. Pushing by accident is bad. That's right. An unintended push-on-commit is *much* more likely to cause annoyance and damage than an unintended non-push-on-commit. A local commit is a reversible operation; a push is not. -- Eric S. Raymond