From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change? Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071011143005.GA18057@thyrsus.com> <20071011175016.GB8243@thyrsus.com> <87odf4ayop.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bqb12w32.fsf@jurta.org> <20071019214206.GA710@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192952293 22956 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 07:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 09:38:14 2007 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 1IjVO1-0005q6-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjVNt-0006ia-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjVNm-0006gH-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjVNi-0006dq-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjVNh-0006dk-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjVNh-0005Li-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjVDU-0001QU-JI; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:27:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <20071019214206.GA710@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81344 Archived-At: But that proposal has trouble in the details: > if we use the terms "VC fileset" and "fileset", it sounds like the > former is a special case of the latter. > > Can you modify it to solve the problem? That's easy. The real difference isn't between "used in VC" and elsewhere, it's in the lifetime and source of the fileset. I think that would be a confusing way to describe the situation. These two "kinds of filesets" are different data types, with totally different commands.