From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit] Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bmouvu5z.fsf@jane> <87tw2lf6l1.fsf_-_@trurl.irif.fr> <87lgnvr4mh.fsf@jane> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499773737 25336 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 11:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jch@irif.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 13:48:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtev-0006L4-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:48:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtf0-0006DW-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUter-0006C7-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUteq-0004R5-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUte9-00045p-2M; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUte8-00051x-BC; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:48:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgnvr4mh.fsf@jane> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:15:18 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216468 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. ]]] > > Should we add a command to specify "mark all the modified files for > > this commit"? > What Magit does is that if you try to commit with nothing staged, it > offers to stage everything that has changed. This seems reasonable. VC does not know about staging. For it to what you've suggested here would mean a large change. Maybe that change would be useful, so try writing it if you wish. But I think what we want here is a simple fix. -- 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.