Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit]

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-07-11, at 01:26, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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>
>   > Yes, that's annoying.  You need to mark all the modified files in the
>   > vc-dir buffer.
>
> vc-dir shows all the modified files on its own.
> The user has to specify which ones to commit.
>
> Should we add a command to specify "mark all the modified files for
> this commit"?

What Magit does is that if you try to commit with nothing staged, it
offers to stage everything that has changed.  This seems reasonable.

-- 
Marcin Borkowski