Re: VC mode and git

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 02:36:37 +0900
> 
>  > > If the previous pull succeeded, does this mean that he lost a
>  > > race in a handful of minutes?  And lost "a lot" of text?  Weird.
>  > 
>  > One possibility is a merge from emacs-24, which can potentially bring
>  > quite a few commits from the release branch, and is done by a program,
>  > so it can be very fast.  Look at the long list of the modified files
>  > that are staged, which the pull succeeded to merge -- they do suggest
>  > a lot of changes were fetched.
> 
> You think Richard pulled from emacs-24?

No, I think someone else merged from emacs-24 onto master, and pushed
the result between Richard's 2 pulls.

>  > Saving a file after resolving all of its conflicts automatically
>  > runs "git add" for that file in Emacs's VC, so it is already
>  > staged.
>  > 
>  > So yes, "git commit" should have worked.
> 
> OK.  If vc does that, I don't understand the intended workflow in vc,
> then.  Maybe it's just adapted to what ESR does.

I think VC's support of the intended workflow "needs work" (TM).