From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 4803fba487 1/2: 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349) Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:51:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <166171593185.16640.41619657947456727@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87r10znm0y.fsf@gnus.org> <83fshfvvyn.fsf@gnu.org> <999d1cb2-6b7f-8020-5202-e919278d895e@yandex.ru> <877d2pnqup.fsf@yahoo.com> <86zgfknc9a.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87sflc91q7.fsf@gnus.org> <87wnao7l74.fsf@gnus.org> <0d5679a1-7635-53db-51c7-0ac0e35325d8@yandex.ru> <87mtbke7wf.fsf@gnus.org> <87ilm8e5am.fsf@gnus.org> <87k06nz9g8.fsf@gnus.org> <874jxrz5ai.fsf@gnus.org> <874jxrgr8s.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3498"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, juri@linkov.net, luangruo@yahoo.com, ams@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 03 04:52:39 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oUJGw-0000hb-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUJGv-0005y6-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUJFh-0003Sn-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUJFf-0001jw-1m; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:51:19 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=zBbDhA4IUBZvnAEHjA1eme/JUAQ9iwFLXmqsB5J1RIo=; b=m0ZqAF9ubMPS 8nQkbfsmX2oZpuq42RAsVZtozLzHNtE639CvkAgHPT9KfEQp0qpkYEjWK5Obl4I0YhdWTN3j/zI+q DSsvD389whC+6/bdxxikG2V2lXa2GcRdxY1lBukw/P/uDJLxnNY+TOqj54mmXsNnPj4/Hf+cHtdul 3xd0ABUdfM83QwhnZ2sbF/j/ciycwvm5Z1vaA71+uj9vXW0X5hiTUEOcKv591xdq5qLqnEHXezm5U XClCBuayOhzqpmhG/8Hpi/bbKp/gM6wfwpljpcx1YgYRhhcb+DyAZaeU9kltMDdZt90proq9x6bb1 XDq3DNUPE6UoYd/q5ZJ4tA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUJFd-000665-6I; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:51:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874jxrgr8s.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:26:43 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294593 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. ]]] > 'git apply' will work as a replacement for 'patch' as well. Will it work with all the back ends that VC supports? If it only works with git, it is not a very useful fallback. Note that it would add the requirement for git to be installed. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)