From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-toggle-read-only mishandles CVS ro file in presence of CVSREAD=1
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:36:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4p7i6pq7.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od5q9kbi.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:04:33 +0200")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
> I see vc-toggle-read-only now reads:
> The "not a safe ... newer than RCS" blurb is (gratuitously) wrong,
> but at least we know the authors' bias up front. I suggest we
> remove that blurb and use checkout-model info to make this command
> DTRT again.
It was always a stupid command (even 2,000,000 years ago when a few
people still used RCS), adding VC functionality in an unexpected and
confusing place in a misguided attempt at DWIM.
I say we just get rid of it and good riddance. It's nothing more than
an ugly reminder of an ugly past.
-Miles
--
Would you like fries with that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 5:04 vc-toggle-read-only mishandles CVS ro file in presence of CVSREAD=1 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-25 5:36 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-06-25 9:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-25 14:10 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25 14:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-23 10:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-25 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 16:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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