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: emacs-w3m? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3E1D063D-AC8A-4E40-B9F8-6ACA5089C4A7@gmail.com> <873a0p1dqt.fsf@telefonica.net> <87r5o9yr4y.fsf@telefonica.net> <87mxywzx2r.fsf@telefonica.net> <87ocjcejeo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83r5o8l3oo.fsf@gnu.org> <873a0nyqjx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sk8nx7ba.fsf@telefonica.net> <83y6iedi2e.fsf@gnu.org> <87ljecrcdb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267419429 20029 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2010 04:57:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 05:57:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlxgl-0000kD-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlxgl-0002cb-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlxgf-0002b2-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36027 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlxge-0002aT-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlxge-0003Mg-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:8712 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlxgc-0003MM-Q8; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:54 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAOrXiktMCrTT/2dsb2JhbACbFXS5T4R7BIMXh3E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,557,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="57040914" Original-Received: from 76-10-180-211.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.180.211]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2010 23:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E9AA3B4212; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:56:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ljecrcdb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:42:40 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:121487 Archived-At: >> There'd be very little justification for such a prompt: >> - prompts suck for command line tools that can be used in scripts (or >> by Emacs packages ;-) >> - "bzr add" prints the list of files it actually added, so if it adds >> some files you didn't expect, you have a fair chance of noticing it >> after the fact. >> - the effect of an overzealous "bzr add" can be cancelled without harm >> any time until the next "commit". >> - it's usually recommended to use " diff" before a " commit" >> so as to make sure you don't commit something by mistake, and that >> would give one last chance to catch a "bzr add" that added more >> than expected. > All that said, it seems far better to just do what git does, and require > one to type "... add ." instead. Mistakes are still possible (and thus > your points remain), but much more difficult in practice. Probably doesn't make any difference: he would have typed "bzr add ." rather than "bzr add" and the result would have been the same. Stefan