Re: My plans for VC mode

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> I'm fine with breaking backward compatibility.  But then please try to
> find "all" the out-of-tree backends for Free revision control systems,
> and then try to find their maintainer to get them in the loop.

I'd be happy to get the maintainers involved, but I don't have any idea
how to go about finding the out-of-tree back ends.  Help would be
appreciated.

> If you're about to redesign the backend API, I'll take the opportunity
> to include my pet wishitems for VC which I never got to address:
> - async operation for most operations (including "commit" and "status").
> - generic support for shelve/stash.

I think shelve-stash will be dead easy.

You're the second person to bring up async operation.  I don't have
a clear idea of what that means.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>