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: patch vs. overwrite in bzr Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:32:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83lim7acqi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k42cwys8.fsf@gnu.org> <83k41vctyg.fsf@gnu.org> <83aa2rcnww.fsf@gnu.org> <8362dedgcb.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkapi7qe.fsf@gnu.org> <83iphdb6dp.fsf@gnu.org> <878vi9gqst.fsf@gnu.org> <838vi9b2sr.fsf@gnu.org> <87lim9f9fx.fsf@gnu.org> <83zkaoa8gr.fsf@gnu.org> <87bon4b7hd.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83wr5s9hkb.fsf@gnu.org> <87398fbvr1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83obr3agk0.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5q7aeew.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333805709 9453 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2012 13:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 13:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 15:35:08 2012 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 1SGVnH-0000ew-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:35:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SGVnH-0000HW-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SGVnE-0000FZ-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SGVn9-0004Py-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:49417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SGVn9-0004Pm-0p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M24009002W8D200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:34:53 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.252.114]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M24009SI3244I60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:34:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y5q7aeew.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:149461 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:56:39 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> > You are assuming that I use VC to do my bzr operations. That'= s false. > >>=20 > >> What you use for "bzr operations" have nothing to do with the > >> information displayed on the modeline, which helps hackers who u= se > >> colocated branches to know all the time which branch they are wo= rking > >> on. > > > > It helps only if one looks at the modeline when invoking the VCS > > commands. >=20 > If the current branch name is displayed on the modeline for the fil= es > that belong to that branch, it helps whenever you look at it, doesn= 't > it? What I meant was that when you invoke a VCS command, you need to be aware which branch is the current one, or you might invoke a wrong command. When you invoke a VCS command, the modeline is not necessarily in your field of view, especially if the command is not invoked from Emacs.