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: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <87384qzxqy.fsf@igel.home> <83bnjen71r.fsf@gnu.org> <83twx6a7wm.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427559488 16552 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2015 16:18:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:18:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, schwab@suse.de, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 17:18:01 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 1YbtQo-0006Ua-M2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:17:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQo-0000OG-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQj-0000Nt-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQj-0003Uy-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQj-0003Us-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQi-0002Y0-7m; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:48 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:53:52 -0400) 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:184468 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. ]]] > A lot of the motivation behind the subsequent tools has been to try and > lift this constraints, and as a result, unsurprisingly most operations > can now be applied at any time. > So the DWIM element of C-x v v is indeed by nature very difficult to > port from RCS to Git/Hg/Bzr/Younameit. It is not difficult, as long as you don't ask too much of it. It may be impossible to make DWIM serve a sophisticated user whose use of Git follows no simple pattern. However, it is not hard to make DWIM useful when a user is using Git in RCS fashion. If a given user uses Git in RCS fashion _most of the time_, then the DWIM would still serve _most of the time_, which is quite useful. -- 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.