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: Another VC terminology change? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071011143005.GA18057@thyrsus.com> <200710120046.l9C0k3Ti018924@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192151358 10545 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 01:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 03:09:07 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 1Ig91X-0007jZ-4e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:09:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig91Q-00079f-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig91N-00079Q-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig91K-000796-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig91K-000793-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from bc.sympatico.ca ([209.226.175.184] helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig91K-000152-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.55.141.81]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071012010853.YDKY18413.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@ceviche.home> for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1F183B41BB; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:08:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200710120046.l9C0k3Ti018924@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu\, 11 Oct 2007 17\:45\:54 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:80676 Archived-At: >> Not about "checkout" which sometimes means "update" and sometimes "get". > Speaking of "update", vc-update needs to be rethought a bit. > Mercurial, bzr and git (maybe other systems too) don't seem to want to > do merges based on a file, but on changesets. > What should we do about that? Those backends should simply signal an error if requested to update something less than the whole tree. Stefan