From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12001: 24.1.50; vc-diff always talks to CVS repository Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: <5vtxvw529e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83vcgdardy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345521292 12910 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2012 03:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12001@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 05:54:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYI-0003HD-6d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:54:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYG-0002Uc-5z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYE-0002UN-6k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYD-0007SO-9r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYD-0007SK-6W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fYT-0004aZ-Ho for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:55:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12001 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12001-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12001.134552125117579 (code B ref 12001); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12001) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Aug 2012 03:54:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40782 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fXf-0004ZT-17 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:56055) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fXc-0004ZM-W1 for 12001@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3fXJ-0003e5-NS; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:53:49 -0400 X-Spook: Echelon [Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic X-Ran: *Cg6oG~[(KEIpiS].\G6S7g'Y8m8txr&XvV7i\?C5w=b3[3'Dj+$NGDfE[osy)1w.Ne.3# X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83vcgdardy.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:52:09 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:63336 Archived-At: Firstly; Is this bug report about CVS, as the initial report and subject indicate; or is it about bzr, as every subsequent message seems to indicate? If so, bzr + vc-diff + no network works just fine for me. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since bzr has all the history of the versions locally Secondly; Maybe rms has somehow ended up with a lightweight checkout, or a stacked branch, or some other non-standard form of bzr repository that does not actually keep all the data locally. What does `bzr info' report in the local copy? While Emacs could in principle try to handle these forms of bzr checkout better, it seems kind of pointless, since the solution is simply to use a "normal" bzr branch.