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-diffs] master 01/01: Remove never-used rev argument from VC's backend checkin methods. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141120073936.29751.31436@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416583575 14755 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 15:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:26:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 16:26:08 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 1Xrq64-0008Lr-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:26:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrq63-0007E0-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34111) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrq5j-0007Dq-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrq5b-0004Uo-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:44668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrq5b-0004Uk-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sALFPbBi031179; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 52B4043B8; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:39:37 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered BODY_START_GREETING=0.1, RV5132=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5132> : inlines <1552> : streams <1346263> : uri <1835571> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:177949 Archived-At: Hi Eric, Thanks for getting back to VC, which is need of a lot of love. I just wanted to point out that there a few vc backends out there which aren't included in Emacs. So please try to preserve some amount of backward compatibility. Or just check whether those backends would be affected. I'm not too worried about vc-p4.el since it supports a proprietary product, but there's at least vc-darcs and probably a few more (I've seen mentions of vc-mw.el (MediaWiki) recently, and there might be some VC backends for Fossil, Codeville, ...). Stefan