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Re: Repo cpnversion progress report
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Repo cpnversion progress report |
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Sun, 2 Feb 2014 05:24:51 -0500 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> >> He doesn't and moves on. Or he goes back to the old Bzr repository to
> >> figure it out.
> > We could have a VC command that consults an external file with the
> > mapping. We could even display the results of such mapping in a
> > tooltip or in a display property. Then the need to remember will
> > disappear.
>
> And then arrange for that extra code to be triggered only for the case
> we're looking at an Emacs revision? Sounds difficult/impossible.
> We'll need some explicit user action. "over-engineering" is the word
> that comes to mind.
100% with Stefan on this. IMO it's not so common a use case that
heroic measures are required.
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