From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:28 -0700 Message-ID: <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210039286 28100 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 02:01:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 02:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 04:02:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JtCVA-0005Df-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 04:01:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtCUT-00084l-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtCUO-00084d-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtCUM-00084N-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57103 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtCUM-00084K-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtCUM-0001C8-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:06 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1210644029.8953@RTWXviuwKxJX/I4s9A9e3g Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m4620Sw7023511; Mon, 5 May 2008 19:00:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 21:15:37 -0400") Original-Lines: 18 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:96564 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > 2. When the backend supports the concept, every vc-dir buffer has a > > special top-line entry that can be marked to select the entire repo. > > In PCL-CVS we list subdirectories, including ".", which is hence not > particularly special. vc-dir has "." too, but it's not shown by default (one needs to set vc-dir-show-directories to get it) because various VC operations don't do too well when passed directories... When that is fixed, we can show it by default. > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo". There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. Can we please have an answer to for the above question?