From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit] Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:37:32 +0300 Message-ID: <838tjvjaz7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bmouvu5z.fsf@jane> <87tw2lf6l1.fsf_-_@trurl.irif.fr> <87lgnvr4mh.fsf@jane> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499784613 26242 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 14:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, jch@irif.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 16:50:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwU9-0005zO-ID for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:49:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwMm-0008KD-Da for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwIM-0004yK-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwIL-0005bi-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwIL-0005be-KD; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1221 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUwIE-0007Cu-7x; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:37:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgnvr4mh.fsf@jane> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:15:18 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216478 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:15:18 +0200 > Cc: Juliusz Chroboczek , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > vc-dir shows all the modified files on its own. > > The user has to specify which ones to commit. > > > > Should we add a command to specify "mark all the modified files for > > this commit"? > > What Magit does is that if you try to commit with nothing staged, it > offers to stage everything that has changed. This seems reasonable. Reasonable for Magit, since it supports only Git. Not sure about VC: staging is a Git-only feature, whereas VC tries to abstract the user from the backend as much as possible.