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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:15:18 +0200
> Cc: Juliusz Chroboczek <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > vc-dir shows all the modified files on its own.
> > The user has to specify which ones to commit.
> >
> > Should we add a command to specify "mark all the modified files for
> > this commit"?
> 
> What Magit does is that if you try to commit with nothing staged, it
> offers to stage everything that has changed.  This seems reasonable.

Reasonable for Magit, since it supports only Git.  Not sure about VC:
staging is a Git-only feature, whereas VC tries to abstract the user
from the backend as much as possible.