Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment

[Eric S. Raymond]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
>   > Interesting idea. I think you are right that this is what people usually
>   > want - "oops, I just committed something incomplete, let me get back to
>   > the repo and workfile state just before I hit the button, with the commit
>   > message stashed for re-use".
> 
>   > The question then becomes whether preserving the rollback methods we have
>   > now gets us anywhere towards that.
> 
> That was always the reason I used vc-rollback, and it seemed to do
> that job just fine.  What's lacking?

Leaving the *modified* workfile in place rather than reverting it.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>