From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Slow merge of vc.el begins: "focus version" Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:09:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071006083252.F366738032@snark> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191680737 3923 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2007 14:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 16:25:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IeAat-0002Vm-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeAao-0007Mf-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie8gA-0001x6-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie8g9-0001wa-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie8g9-0001wR-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([63.240.77.83]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ie8g9-0003VJ-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org (c-24-218-183-253.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.218.183.253]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2007100612224301300si1e6e>; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:22:44 +0000 Original-Received: from [10.1.1.12] by mail (Axigen) with ESMTPA id 0BF513; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 08:21:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071006083252.F366738032@snark> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 X-Detected-Kernel: NetCache Data OnTap 5.x X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:25:19 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80334 Archived-At: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:32:52 -0400 (EDT), ers wrote: > .. I will probably start by merging, into both code and manual, >the "workfile version" -> "focus version" change. ... > >I am not really happy about introducing a new term, especially one >that isn't lifted from VCS terminology already current. But, as I >explained to Dan, none of the VCSes have evolved an unambiguous term >of art for this. =20 Given that the various supported vc backend use different terminology I would to see a table listing emacs vc concepts and terms with the corresponding terminology for each backend. Also, given the dvc project expressed hope of ultimately shipping with emacs I would hope that vc and dvc would settle on common terminology. /john