Re: VC mode and git

[Richard Stallman]

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  > A lot of the motivation behind the subsequent tools has been to try and
  > lift this constraints, and as a result, unsurprisingly most operations
  > can now be applied at any time.
  > So the DWIM element of C-x v v is indeed by nature very difficult to
  > port from RCS to Git/Hg/Bzr/Younameit.

It is not difficult, as long as you don't ask too much of it.

It may be impossible to make DWIM serve a sophisticated user whose use
of Git follows no simple pattern.  However, it is not hard to make
DWIM useful when a user is using Git in RCS fashion.

If a given user uses Git in RCS fashion _most of the time_, then the
DWIM would still serve _most of the time_, which is quite useful.

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