Confusing message from "bzr resolve"

Ben Finney ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au
Sun Jan 17 00:00:04 GMT 2010


Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > Who is responsible for Emacs VC? Would they be so kind as to say
> > when this behaviour changed? That would be good information for the
> > BzrForEmacsDev page.
>
> Considering that the mentioned wiki page is aimed at Emacs developers,
> and those use mostly the development version of Emacs, it is not
> important to pinpoint the version that introduced the feature.

I think the readership of that page is wider than you describe. It's a
good page to point newcomers toward, especially if they use Emacs.

> In case that someone uses an older version, the worst thing that could
> happen is to create a bit of surprise when he will be forced to
> execute the resolve command explicitly.

No, that's not the worst that can happen. It will also result in *not
knowing why* the result wasn't as described. “Did I do something wrong?
What did I do wrong?” That kind of worry is easily addressed by saying
in what versions one should expect the described behaviour.

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Ben Finney




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