Re: Magit-inspired Emacs interface for Sapling (sl)

Hi, unless I forgot something no, I just have networking issues at my apartment so I couldn't push anything.  If anyone else with access to nongnu.git could add the two packages, we could add the packages earlier, otherwise I'll get back to it when I fix the problems.

On 19 August 2026 01:05:34 CEST, swithin chan <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Philip 
>Thank you. Anything should do to follow up? Eg write th package description in nongnu?
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>On Sunday, August 16, 2026, 11:24 PM, Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> wrote:
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>swithin chan <[email protected]> writes:
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>>  Dear Stephane and Philip, Renamed both packages to sapling and vc-sapling and changed all the functions to sapling prefix. 
>>   sapling    -> https://github.com/swithinchan/sapling.git
>>   vc-sapling -> https://github.com/swithinchan/vc-sapling.git
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>OK, nice.  Note that you can use the shorthand system within the files
>if you want to abbreviate the symbol names inside the file.
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>I think that should be everything.  Leaving some time for further
>comments, I'll add the package to nongnu.git by tomorrow.
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>>    On Sunday, 16 August 2026 at 10:47:35 pm GMT+8, Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> wrote:  
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>> >  Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:
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>> >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]>
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>> >>> swithin chan <[email protected]> writes:
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>> >>> > I can make vc-el a standalone package. Maybe Just give me some time.
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>> >>> It doesn't have to be, it seems totally fair to have vc-sl depend on sl.
>> >>> I am just wondering it wouldn't make sense to rename the sl (or both?)
>> >>> package to sapling.
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>> >> +1
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>> >> In the facebook source code, sapling is called sapling.  The unfortunately
>> >> named sl command line command is named sl but lives in the eden/scm
>> >> directory.  If it had been me, I'd have named the command sapling and
>> >> recommended shell aliases if that's what people wanted rather than
>> >> interfering with 50+ years of people aliasing "sl" to "ls" (ls was named in
>> >> 1969, long before facebookers).
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>> > But we should keep in mind that there is precedence for calling the VC
>> > backend after the command and not the name of the project, as with vc-hg
>> > instead of vc-mercurial.
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