Re: Repo cpnversion progress report

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> >> He doesn't and moves on.  Or he goes back to the old Bzr repository to
> >> figure it out.
> > We could have a VC command that consults an external file with the
> > mapping.  We could even display the results of such mapping in a
> > tooltip or in a display property.  Then the need to remember will
> > disappear.
> 
> And then arrange for that extra code to be triggered only for the case
> we're looking at an Emacs revision?  Sounds difficult/impossible.
> We'll need some explicit user action.  "over-engineering" is the word
> that comes to mind.

100% with Stefan on this.  IMO it's not so common a use case that
heroic measures are required.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>