Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176

[Eric S. Raymond]

Miles Bader <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I don't think the mere plural 'files' effectively conveys the idea
> > that these things are treated atomically as a group rather than sliced
> > and diced in parallel as in old VC.
> 
> Frankly, neither does the term "fileset".  It suggests "set of files", and
> says nothing about how they are handled.

But at least it connotes a unit.

> The place to make that clear is in the documentation.

Which I think I have done in my most recent commit to files.texi.

Unless someone else has *specific wordsmithing* which is an improvement
on the language now in files.texi, I think this discussion has ceased
to serve a useful purpose.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>