From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87twqon9m7.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442779538 24672 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2015 20:05:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:05:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 20 22:05:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkrZ-0002P0-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkrY-0003gt-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkrG-0003gM-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkrA-0007CN-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdkrA-0007BI-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zdkr8-0001l2-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es ([85.55.19.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:05:02 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V4h4nhSmXdeILBxgz2Wokx1pZhc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190155 Archived-At: >>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> But as I learned from David and Eli that ESR, removed another feature, namely >> undo-last-checkin AKA rollback. > The most natural way to re-add tihs feature is to make vc-rcs.el > understand the "Amend:" header that's also used by Git. > In Git, this lets you mark the current commit as replacing the last > one, instead of being a completely new one. So it seems to be > exactly your use case. But now I am confused, so Git and I presume hg provides for all practical purpose a similar functionality. Why was it then removed. Ok I confess I better read the links, which were provided by David and Eli yesterday.