From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:28:42 +0100 Message-ID: <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199546885 5816 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 15:28:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 16:28:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBAwi-0001yM-Vq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAwM-0007o1-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAwG-0007jA-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAwB-0007XB-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAwA-0007Wm-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.56]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBAw3-00060L-OR; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:27:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DF91A68E5; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:27:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (mail-in-17.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.57]) by mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA82346AB1; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:27:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-039-009.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.39.9]) by mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4659F2BBB11; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:27:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id DE1361CCF7AE; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:28:42 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:30:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/5375/Sat Jan 5 14:44:50 2008 on mail-in-17.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86177 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > I don't think it makes sense to compare these two different "commit" > > operations -- it's like comparing an apple to an orange tree branch. > > If you compare applies with oranges instead, the difference is > > much less. > > I think that the comparison is quite accurate: the commit does > everything that a commit in CVS does. The difference in workflow is not > in committing, it is in the fact that everybody has his own repository > (and all of them are equal). > > I think that is a confusing way to compare them. > It focuses on similarities in implementation > rather than on similarities in use and role. But the use and role is completely the same as using a private CVS repository: all the diff and merge and branch and commit machinery works for single persons quite similar as with CVS. The difference is just that there are more elaborate mechanisms than rsync for synchronizing several private repositories. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum