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Not a prefix arg


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Not a prefix arg
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:17 -0400

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  > I have pushed a commit to feature/package+vc that will use the release
  > revision (if it is known) when `package-vc-install' is invoked with a
  > prefix argument.

It is good to offer both options.  However, the question of which
version to check out, and in which repo, makes a big difference.  A
prefix argument is easy to forget, and if you get the source for the
wrong version (wrong for your purposes), you may not recognize that it
is the wrong version.

I think we need to have two command names for these two things to do,
and each command name should make the difference clear.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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