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Re: emacs-w3m?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacs-w3m?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:10:08 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:03:41 -0500
> 
>       Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will implicitly
>       add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means you should never
>       need to explicitly add a directory, they ll just get added when you
>       add a file in the directory.
> 
>     The second sentence explains the rationale behind this feature.  But
>     in this case, Bob mistakenly added a single file, and that ended up
>     adding the whole directory.  By contrast, "cvs add" is explicitly
>     non-recursive, AFAIR.
> 
> The feature is clearly a convenience in the case where you are not
> making a mistake.  Should `bzr add' ask for confirmation before doing
> this?

Maybe, at least as an option.  There's also the use-case of calling
bzr from Emacs, which we should take into consideration: is
interaction supported in that case?




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