[Monotone-devel] emacs "DVC" project

[Nathaniel Smith]

The old emacs "VC" generic VCS support stuff is... not very well
suited to modern tools, as anyone who has spent much time playing with
it knows -- it's all file based, etc., so even though it's supposed to
be "generic", it doesn't make sense to try and plug in a monotone
backend.  Hence things like monotone.el.

Just an FYI in case anyone is interested, some (former?) arch-heads
seem to be working on a replacement; a new generic VCS mode that's
better suited to modern tools, called "DVC":
  http://wiki.gnuarch.org/xtla#DVC

Might be worth taking a look at and adding monotone support to, if
anyone wants to.

-- Nathaniel

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