In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit]

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In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit]

From: Juliusz Chroboczek

Subject: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit]

Date: 2017年7月10日 03:01:30 +0200

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>> For simple vc tasks -- and that typically equates to many things one
>> traditionally did in all VC systems, vc-git is what I use --- examples:
I agree. VC stays out of the way, while Magit is a whole new interface,
and a modal one at that. That's fine if you're doing complicated stuff
with your repository, but if you're actually programming and wish to
commit your work or check a diff, VC is much more streamlined.
> The main annoyance is that if I edit _more than one file_, and press C-x
> v v, instead of committing my all changes (or at least asking me about
> it), it only commits the changes in the currently edited file.
Yes, that's annoying. You need to mark all the modified files in the
vc-dir buffer. And I agree that VC should at least warn that there are
other modified files. (I think this deserves a bug report.)
> I suspect that situation (with VC) is better now than a few years ago
> (e.g., AFAIK pushing/pulling is now implemented), but I haven't looked
> into it too much.
It's quite useful for everyday tasks -- committing, diffing and browsing
the logs. For more exotic tasks (partial commits, browsing remotes
repositories, merging), I use Magit or the command line.
-- Juliusz

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