Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS

[Stefan Monnier]

>> FWIW, I suspect that your `git blame` will give the same answer as the
>> corresponding `git log` (it will probably end up using the same code
>> under the hood), but I don't understand what you mean above.  I think
>> `git log` would accept the exact same `-L` as you use for `git blame`
>> and will deal with "the issue that the Version header might move" in the
>> exact same way.
>
> Well apparently not, but I am not entirely sure what the issue was.  If
> you want to, I could take a better look at it and figure out if I missed
> something.

Not worth it.  As I said, I think it'll give the same info anyway.

>> I find this part of VC beyond repair: AFAICT the notion of
>> "tag/snapshot/..."  has been defined "on the fly" with a narrow view of
>> what was needed for one particular situation at a particular time.
>>
>> It's probably worth "throwing it out" (well, keeping it on life support)
>> and introducing a whole new set of operations based on a design that
>> tries to accommodate all the various related notions out there.
>
> I agree, but that issue goes beyond the proposal of feature/package+vc.

No doubt :-)


        Stefan