From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141123215659.2CA0C382F79@snark.thyrsus.com> <874mtp58a9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124083310.GA29913@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416840052 10594 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2014 14:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 15:40:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsuol-00070o-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsuol-0007ZE-9T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsuoH-0007Yj-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsuo6-0003JR-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:44044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsuo6-0003H9-G8; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sAOEe1Av019626; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 430F562B9; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20141124083310.GA29913@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:33:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5135=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5135> : inlines <1556> : streams <1347887> : uri <1835959> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178175 Archived-At: > ;; - vc-state-heuristic is gone. Previously defined in bzr, CVS, > ;; RCS, and SCCS, it was an attempt to circumvent the slowness of > ;; disk operations on older hardware (and in the case of bzr, > ;; unreasonable slowness of older bzr versions). AFAIR, I introduced it (back in the CVS days) not for disk access but to circumvent the slow access to the remote repository. Stefan