From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>,
eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, juri@jurta.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 4803fba487 1/2: 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:59:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17c4f8ff-d24b-72d6-7fd2-af048b017c45@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvedwxziux.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 30.08.2022 21:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov [2022-08-30 18:26:41] wrote:
>> On 30.08.2022 18:16, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I can look into adapting this approach for other VCS if nobody beats me to
>>>> it. As long as we fundamentally agree on the behavior.
>>> Fine by me. I'll just mention that I think we should be careful to make
>>> sure no info is lost if Emacs crashes in the middle of the operation.
>> File contents' backups should remain somewhere in /tmp, *shrug*.
>> It might take some effort to find them, though.
>
> We could do something like:
>
> run-the-vcs-diff-on-the FILES >VC-pending-changes
> patch -R <VC-pending-changes
> ...do the vc-checkin-patch...
> patch <VC-pending-changes
> rm VC-pending-changes
>
> or (closer to Git's behavior):
>
> tar -cf VC-pending-changes.tar FILES
> vc-revert FILES
> ...do the vc-checkin-patch...
> tar xf VC-pending-changes.tar
> rm VC-pending-changes.tar
Except we probably can't rely on 'patch' or 'tar' being installed on the
user's system.
>> I think it's hard to implement this with even more safety somehow.
>
> I'm just worried that the uncommmitted changes we need to temporarily
> remove are the rare parts that contain information that's not yet
> duplicated in the VCS's data, so if we only store it in an Emacs buffer
> it's vulnerable to an Emacs crash (which is something that *does*
> happen, especially for us poor souls who run with experimental code and
> with all assertions enabled :-).
The /tmp approach implied 'cp', not storing contents of files in
background buffers.
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2022-08-28 21:18 ` master 4803fba487 1/2: 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349) Sean Whitton
2022-08-29 4:50 ` Manuel Uberti
2022-08-29 16:40 ` Daniel Martín
2022-08-29 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-29 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-29 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 19:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-08-29 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 20:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 12:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 13:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 17:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 16:47 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 17:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 17:18 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30 7:20 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 14:49 ` Sean Whitton
2022-08-30 16:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-31 15:48 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-08-31 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-01 0:32 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-01 0:33 ` Sean Whitton
2022-08-30 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 12:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-09-01 20:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 13:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-08-30 13:42 ` Po Lu
2022-08-30 14:02 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-10-25 19:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 14:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 14:20 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-08-30 14:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-30 15:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 15:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-30 15:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-30 15:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-30 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-30 20:59 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-08-30 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 6:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-08-30 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 16:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-30 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 17:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-30 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 17:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-30 19:23 ` Sean Whitton
2022-08-30 17:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 1:28 ` Po Lu
2022-08-31 2:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 6:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-31 10:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 10:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-31 11:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 15:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-31 16:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 16:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-31 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-09-01 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-01 11:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-09-01 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-01 11:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-09-01 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-17 0:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-17 19:17 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-01 13:26 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 13:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-09-01 13:32 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-03 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-04 12:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-08-31 11:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 16:06 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 16:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-16 23:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-16 23:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 16:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 11:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-08-31 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-04 7:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-04 12:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-04 17:07 ` Philip Kaludercic
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