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: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:37:46 -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> <56023A6C.3020302@yandex.ru> <5602BE3E.1050009@yandex.ru> <5602C4DE.8020105@yandex.ru> <560B4899.2070708@yandex.ru> <83wpv8be0x.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvw4b871.fsf@gnu.org> <560BC90B.1040902@yandex.ru> <560C9B3C.70306@yandex.ru> <560E2646.3010601@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443836319 7624 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 01:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 01:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 03:38:30 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 1ZiBmP-0001zD-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:38:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36449 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBmP-0000BS-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBlv-00005c-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBlu-0004V3-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:37:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBli-0004KD-Rw; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBli-0000xA-2W; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:37:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <560E2646.3010601@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:37:58 +0300) 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:190760 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. ]]] > If you don't use RCS in a multi-level environment, same as Eli, and > nobody else does, we don't really need that locking feature, and so we > don't need vc-next-action to "steal the lock" as a separate step. We > don't need that function, and we don't need the `steal-lock' backend > command. We cannot conclude that a feature is unused from a discussion on this list. That requires polling the list. C-x v v for RCS works fine. Likewise for CVS. We will not change those behaviors. We can change what it does for git, if git users like the change. That is something we can tell from discussion on this list. -- 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.