From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:44:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87myn3tma4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506162247.GD10771@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210092403 31513 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 16:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 18:47:18 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 1JtQJl-0002zm-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 18:47:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtQJ3-0005CL-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtQIz-0005B5-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtQIx-0005AJ-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35949 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtQIx-0005AG-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtQIw-0003zz-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so1418299nfi.26 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 09:44:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=3B0p9gR/fJt8CbNFHZ5wyPOyEO6PiMGHIC383PiRjBU=; b=S5hTP1SSWL7VLHlKsmwEtXVkXmazkE01l95pxGsYMvS2M/ca5gKuYv+tFzH8ws0qjEFUy6UEB7yryrE8/UoxChMAC2JMBo76SUly88JxxkyOVB3pXg645QJi4hD3+QzK7dXqUL5zaDALh/SLwzFt3SsXXuYNH1tMnbgkqL1Z6WY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=fB84KDPXvn3zwxPXqE743WDUq+y0cHLKrp2CtsAYAe9u5BHO+dt4oRZibqBP1ME+FDEIFQhNow0IhtOGO8irfKrLI4IVRMS+zZsfCU/iwjhuEzgYdPJc5Qwo8xui1nwura/po5TvgZt/T57Y+Uu+ESby7Z/Mq4ze0UdaISKljUo= Original-Received: by 10.210.21.6 with SMTP id 6mr961595ebu.3.1210092277353; Tue, 06 May 2008 09:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuT42 ( [90.53.24.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm1633668mue.6.2008.05.06.09.44.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 May 2008 09:44:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080506162247.GD10771@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Tue\, 6 May 2008 12\:22\:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:96597 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > Ah, that's good to know. I know that SCCS and RCS don't do directory > arguments at all, and I believe that Subversion and everything after > handles them pretty well. Mercurial does not manage directories at all, but it will not complain if passed a directory as parameter where a file is expected. It will silently do nothing. -- Paul