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Re: minor confusion in files.texi


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: minor confusion in files.texi
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:27:20 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> emacs/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
> says

>     Note that if your version-control system is file-oriented (SCCS,
>   RCS, CVS) rather than fileset-oriented (CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch)
>   specifying a revision of a multiple-file fileset by revision ID (as
>   opposed to a snapshot name or RSCCS/RCS tag) is unlikely to return
>   diffs that are connected in any meaningful way.

> The double use of CVS will be confusing.  It would be better for the
> second parenthesis to say

>     (Subversion, GNU Arch, git, Mercurial)

That omits Monotone, DaRCS, etc...
Why not just say "all others"?


        Stefan




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