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: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <87384qzxqy.fsf@igel.home> <87h9t4kcaq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427639661 15043 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2015 14:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 16:34:17 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 1YcEI3-0005fq-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:34:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEI3-0000p3-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEHR-0000TQ-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEHQ-0000Us-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEHQ-0000Um-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcEHP-0000C0-JT; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:33:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h9t4kcaq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:184516 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. ]]] > Actually, you omit important history. I don't remember it, so I will take your word that things happened as you say. Karl Fogel and I wrote a modern > workflow (one which is used successfully by many many developers in > projects using DVCSes), Felicitations for them, but why should that be relevant to this issue. There is a reason why some people like that workflow, and a reason why it screwed me. you and Ken'ichi screamed, Eli rewrote it to > look like CVS. Thank you, Eli. > Fortunately, you guys were quite late to the party, > and everybody else either used a DVCS-enhanced workflow already, or > read the original BzrForEmacsDevs with the DVCS-enhanced workflow. If that happened, what is fortunate about it? You seem to be campaigning to make people stop using CVS-style workflow, even if it is good for them. We can see that also in the sneer-word "modern", which is further name-calling. -- 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.