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: The name gnus-cloud.el Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:16:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87374jd66s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bmj6dda0.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87vahe911g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87374id7jy.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <877ett8g7k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513631968 31216 195.159.176.226 (18 Dec 2017 21:19:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 22:19:23 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 1eR2ok-0007nK-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2qi-00058t-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:21:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2oE-0002oG-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2n2-0003n8-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2mF-00031i-Tc; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:16:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2mF-0003u5-Dk; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:16:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 18 Dec 2017 05:31:29 +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:221230 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. ]]] > I don't like renaming files because that makes some VCS commands fail > or work less efficiently, and makes forensics much harder and less > convenient. We can't have a policy that badly chosen file names are set in stone and can never be changed. Haven't any files' names been changed since we started using Git? How was that done? gnus-cloud.el is fairly new, so it hasn't got a years-long history entwined with other files. We will not delete its history, but if that history gets a little less convenient to access, it won't be a big deal. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.