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Re: Redesigh of the VC front end


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: Redesigh of the VC front end
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 00:14:05 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> >> > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo".
> >> There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. 
> >> Can we please have an answer to for the above question?
> > There sure is a difference.  They might be the same if "." is the
> > top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise.
> 
> I don't think we should provide a way for the user to operate on a part
> of the tree which is not shown in the buffer.  We may want to provide
> a way to "cd ..", but nothing more.

Hm.  That would be a reasonable alternative.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>




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