From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:45:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wbn5ht4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022133607.GD19334@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Mon\, 22 Oct 2007 09\:36\:07 -0400")
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> I don't think the mere plural 'files' effectively conveys the idea
> that these things are treated atomically as a group rather than sliced
> and diced in parallel as in old VC.
Frankly, neither does the term "fileset". It suggests "set of files", and
says nothing about how they are handled.
The place to make that clear is in the documentation.
-Miles
--
Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here,
beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?
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[not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 14:45 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-10-22 19:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22 15:45 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Stefan Monnier
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