From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:43:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mt2iksu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com
esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> Is it really important to support a VC-mode operation that experience
> has shown to generally be a Bad Thing,
We are really talking about RCS here. RCS is not usually shared, at
least not network-shared. I don't see that experience has shown
rollback to be a bad thing for RCS. Experience does not tend to show a
lot for RCS anyway these days since few people are still using it.
> simply to preserve backward compatibility? How do we evaluate
> tradeoffs when a featurectomy would reduce maintenance burden and
> possibly improve the quality of support for new systems?
>
> I don't think I have a pat answer to these questions. Discuss.
I think that rollback may make sense in RCS-based workflows. But I
don't think that this should be VC's problem. VC does not provide every
functionality for every version control system, so think we should be
fine removing rollback from VC. VC does not support every Git
functionality either: if it is really important to people, it can be
reimplemented in some RCS-specific mode/feature/library/command set.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-11 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-11 9:21 Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 9:43 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-12-11 12:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-11 12:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:12 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 19:54 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 20:53 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 21:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 0:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 10:54 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-12 0:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 3:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 11:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-11 12:42 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 12:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 11:53 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 11:57 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 12:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 13:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-11 14:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-11 15:59 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-11 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 19:24 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 15:44 ` John Mastro
2014-12-12 16:01 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-12-12 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 12:11 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2014-12-14 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 13:10 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2014-12-15 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 21:11 ` Rasmus
2014-12-11 17:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 0:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 3:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-12 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 14:06 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-12 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-14 20:48 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-14 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 2:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-15 9:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-11 18:55 ` Achim Gratz
2014-12-11 19:28 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 9:06 ` vc-region-authors (or some such) Sebastien Vauban
2014-12-12 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-11 15:47 ` Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 17:02 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 18:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 16:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-12 17:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-13 12:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-13 13:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-14 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-14 10:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-14 14:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-11 19:25 ` Karl Fogel
2014-12-11 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-12 15:42 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 16:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-12 17:16 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-12 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 20:54 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-13 9:30 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-13 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-13 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-13 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-13 15:21 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-14 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 13:13 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-14 13:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-15 17:25 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-15 4:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-15 17:34 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-17 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 20:52 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 17:41 ` Multiple independent projects per directory Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 18:07 ` Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Thien-Thi Nguyen
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