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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alex Ott <ott@jet.msk.su>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch for documentation about version control
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:32:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpt2mn1yy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfce289d.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "09 Nov 2004 12:21:34 -0600")

> Minor nit: from this sentence

>    "The GNU project recommends RCS, CVS, and GNU Arch which are
>     free software...",

> some readers could mistakenly infer that the other systems are *not*
> free software.  And because of that lead-in, the next sentence about a
> free replacement for SCCS only strengthens the misimpression.

> Since Subversion and Meta-CVS are both free software, could this
> paragraph be tweaked?  Here's one possible rewording:

>      The Emacs version control interface is called VC.  Its commands work
>    with different version control systems---RCS, CVS, SCCS, Meta-CVS, GNU
>    Arch and Subversion.  The GNU project recommends and distributes
>    RCS, CVS, and GNU Arch.  We also have free software to replace
>    SCCS, known as CSSC; if you are using SCCS and don't want to make
>    the incompatible change to RCS or CVS, you can switch to CSSC.

Agreed,


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-09 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-09  6:55 patch for documentation about version control Alex Ott
2004-11-09  9:13 ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-12  9:11   ` Alex Ott
2004-11-09 18:21 ` Karl Fogel
2004-11-09 21:32   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-11-09 21:34   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-09 22:09     ` David Kastrup
2004-11-10  9:00     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-10  9:22       ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-10 16:43         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 11:55           ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-11 15:11             ` Stefan
2004-11-11 15:36               ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-11 15:25             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 16:06             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 18:25             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-11 20:59               ` Andre Spiegel
2004-11-12  9:33                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-10  9:30     ` Andre Spiegel

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