From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:10 +0300 Message-ID: <834millav1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghsfd3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2rknr2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvwellmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2ri3w88.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83io71ljt6.fsf@gnu.org> <876131pmj6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443002066 22582 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2015 09:54:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 11:54:17 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 1Zegki-0002ZC-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:54:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zegkh-0007Hq-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZegkT-0007G1-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZegkQ-0003lu-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:40218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZegkQ-0003lX-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NV400B00IZWEQ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:53:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NV400B7OJHW9Z70@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:53:56 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <876131pmj6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:190280 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:28:29 +0900 > Cc: =C3=93scar Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > With such different philosophies between different back-ends, we > > really have no choice. Keep in mind that this command is suppos= ed to > > be used very rarely, if at all, by users who know what they are = doing, > > including what it does with the current back-end. >=20 > Those users are *precisely* the ones who would be offended by DWIM. I'm one such user, and I'd appreciate such DWIM very much. A= s long as the command doesn't push upstream, such DWIM is IMO much better than erroring out and asking me to invoke the other command by hand. But again, I'm not going to argue.