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 18:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bmouvu5z.fsf@jane> <87tw2lf6l1.fsf_-_@trurl.irif.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499813750 12574 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 22:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jch@irif.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 00:55:43 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 1dV449-0002Wo-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:55:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV44D-0002ez-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV445-0002er-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV444-00025B-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV43y-00020z-2D; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dV43x-0000LM-En; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:55:25 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:10:10 +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:216509 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"? > There is no need for such a command, just put point on the enclosing > directory. A VC command will then operate on all files in that > directory. I didn't know this; it is not self-evident. Perhaps we should display a line as a message in the buffer to inform users about this option. -- 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.