From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10562
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds)
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: CVS'r'us
Date: 05 Apr 1997 18:09:21 -0700
Message-ID: <37k9mhgdoe.fsf@mornir.gweep.bc.ca>
References: <m2n2si973h.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
	<37d8scvx20.fsf@mornir.gweep.bc.ca>
	<m2hghmmvxu.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
	<m2912ymrb8.fsf@altair.xemacs.org>
	<m2vi61927j.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150412 25094 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:46:52 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:46:52 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <ding-request@ifi.uio.no>
Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2])
	by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA08725
	for <steve@miranova.com>; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:25:30 -0800
Original-Received: from grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (grolsch.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.9]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) 
	id <DAA25515@ifi.uio.no> for <ding@ifi.uio.no> ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 03:20:54 +0200
Original-Received: from cs.ubc.ca (uucp@news.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.2]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA00435 for <ding@ifi.uio.no>; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:20:44 -0800 (PST)
Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA13997 for ding@ifi.uio.no; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:20:26 -0800 (PST)
>Received: from mornir.gweep.bc.ca by edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Sendmail 8.7.5)
	with SMTP id RAA24803; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:09:46 -0800
Original-Received: from cs.ubc.ca by nnrp.cs.ubc.ca; Sat,  5 Apr 1997 17:20 PST
Original-Received: from mornir.gweep.bc.ca by edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Sendmail 8.7.5)
	with SMTP id RAA24803; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:09:46 -0800
Original-Received: (qmail 263 invoked by uid 1180); 6 Apr 1997 01:09:22 -0000
Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no
X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.29 #1 Wed Mar 19 20:11:02 PST 1997
X-Geek: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/doc/geek.html
X-Homepage: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds
X-PGP-Ox6E86B769: This key is obsolete, please discard it.
X-PGP-Ox979D0B09: A9 3E 1E CB 86 09 B1 E9  3C 1A 0E F6 49 F9 5D 99
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 05 Apr 1997 12:46:40 +0200
Original-Lines: 21
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/XEmacs 19.14
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10562
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10562

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> Maybe you guys are joking, but I can think of two useful applications
> for this.

It was only partly a joke.  Version control is very handy, and since
we've been mapping most everying else in this group onto a newslike
paradigm via backends, it seemed a natural idea.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I'm having a hard time vizualising how this is supposed to work.  

One approach that comes to mind is that you could open a VC file as a
group, and each article would be one version, threaded to show version
branches.  The "Date:" header would be the checkin date, perhaps with
the log data in a "Comment:" header.

I use RCS myself, so I'm thinking of this in more of a single file
paradigm.  Someone who uses CVS may be able to extend it to deal with
multifile projects.  Perhaps a thread for each file...

Brian.