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29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly

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Message #218 received at 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi>
Subject: Re: bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:54:21 +0000

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

>
> On 07.10.2022 18:30, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>>> It is for this reason that I prefer the current approach, especially
>>>> when combined with the ability to select commits in a log.
>>> I'm definitely not going to insist: I'm not the target audience of
>>> this feature.
>> I could imagine falling back onto the manual selection of revisions when
>> the root directory is not defined, but I fear that would be too
>> inconsistent and might lead to unintended/unexpected behaviour when
>> switching between VCSs.
>
> IMHO we could just refuse to support the backends which don't have the
> notion of root directory, in this feature.

I wouldn't be a fan, one such backend is CVS that still has people using
it, eg. the BSD people, who also use mailing lists for development.

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