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: VC mode and git Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55118EB5.5030400@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427367293 31605 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2015 10:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 11:54:45 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 1Yb5Qx-0004qQ-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:54:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qw-00071g-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qq-0006wb-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qp-0001lA-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qp-0001l6-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5Qo-0006sR-AQ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:54:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <55118EB5.5030400@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:20:05 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:184288 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Absolutely not. Git is decentralized system. The whole point is to > separate *my* history from *your* history. The whole point of VC is to provide a common interface to various VC You may regard that decentralization as a feature. I have no use for it myself, but I did fall into the resulting pitfall. That is no reason to abandon the compatibility that is VC's goal. > This is incredibly powerful > facility that Emacs should not try to bypass in order to make git work > more like the obsolete version control systems it supplanted. They are not obsolete, and they are not supplanted. You don't have to use them, but I do. > It's not even clear how the feature would work. The upstream for a > particular git repository isn't always clear. For 'git push' to work, it has to know where to push to. Isn't that clear enough? If 'git push' knows where, C-x v v checkin can know where. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.