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: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:09:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghsfd3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2rknr2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvwellmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2ri3w88.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443046217 18529 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2015 22:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 00:10:02 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 1ZesEk-0000SZ-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZesEj-0006zK-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:10:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZesEf-0006zC-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZesEe-0003jH-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZesEZ-0003dk-RP; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZesEZ-0007m9-6d; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:09:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k2ri3w88.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:49:59 +0200) 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:190316 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. ]]] > Adding the reverse change to the history is quite different from > removing the change from the history. IMHO it would be wrong to > implement a command that does one thing or another depending on the > backend. I disagree with that general statement. But even if that were true in general, it isn't really applicable here because this command will ask for confirmation. In the process, it can say which way it will do the job. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.