From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Juliusz Chroboczek Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit] Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87tw2lf6l1.fsf_-_@trurl.irif.fr> References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bmouvu5z.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499648520 18095 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 01:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 01:02:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 03:01:52 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN5D-00049h-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN5H-0001mq-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN5C-0001ma-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN58-0006aG-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34221 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN58-0006Zn-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUN4x-0003Tq-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:01:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2T+uD1qoSfvoIo8R3sFlKJAzrZg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216382 Archived-At: >> For simple vc tasks -- and that typically equates to many things one >> traditionally did in all VC systems, vc-git is what I use --- examples: I agree. VC stays out of the way, while Magit is a whole new interface, and a modal one at that. That's fine if you're doing complicated stuff with your repository, but if you're actually programming and wish to commit your work or check a diff, VC is much more streamlined. > The main annoyance is that if I edit _more than one file_, and press C-x > v v, instead of committing my all changes (or at least asking me about > it), it only commits the changes in the currently edited file. Yes, that's annoying. You need to mark all the modified files in the vc-dir buffer. And I agree that VC should at least warn that there are other modified files. (I think this deserves a bug report.) > I suspect that situation (with VC) is better now than a few years ago > (e.g., AFAIK pushing/pulling is now implemented), but I haven't looked > into it too much. It's quite useful for everyday tasks -- committing, diffing and browsing the logs. For more exotic tasks (partial commits, browsing remotes repositories, merging), I use Magit or the command line. -- Juliusz