From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andre Spiegel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-cvs-global-switches and -f Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:48:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1119440914.4412.316.camel@localhost> References: <87y893qdam.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <1119434933.4412.276.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119441211 5571 80.91.229.2 (22 Jun 2005 11:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 13:53:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl3mP-0004DZ-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:52:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl3t2-0001mp-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:59:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl3ql-0000IN-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl3qg-0000Fz-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl3qg-00008z-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.113.160.40] (helo=mail.o2.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dl3li-0001C9-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.191.100.72] (84.191.100.72) by mail.o2.co.uk (7.0.045) id 429FDA3B001FC73E; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:42:18 +0100 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39292 > > (2) Customizations that the user makes inside Emacs should override > > settings in .cvsrc. In some cases, it may be good or tolerable to > > see a warning message if the settings are inconsistent, e.g. in > > your case where Emacs and .cvsrc don't agree on the diff format. > > Just a question: how do you do Emacs override a setting? Because if > you've got "update -dP", how you would make Emacs do just "update -d" > without passing -f? As I said, I was not referring to the current implementation. Currently, Emacs cannot do this, and it likely requires "-f", along with a way to parse .cvsrc from within Emacs as pcvs.el does it. I was just saying that this seems the most reasonable behaviour, regardless of whether it can easily be implemented (especially during a feature freeze).