Re: Commit practices

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
>> In effect, the suggestion here is that we abandon the idea
>> of useful readable info associated by the VCS with each file.
>
> Right.  Information about changes is most useful when it has
> *changeset* granularity, not file granularity.
>  
>> That would mean that the ChangeLog file is the only place for such
>> info.
>
> No, it means that the information now in the Changelog belongs in the
> CVS history, but with per-commit granularity rather than per-file
> granularity.

I have to agree here.  In fact, I felt very uneasy about committing
multi-file changes until I discovered PCL-CVS which, in contrast to VCS,
allows me to commit several files as one change set.

I believe that VCS should get a "stage for change" operation which works
inside of one Emacs session and prepares one of multiple files for a
single commit.  git actually has a concept of this operation at the
working directory level, so it would make sense to map this "staging"
process for the git backend to the appropriate operation outside of
Emacs.

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