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: Tue, 06 May 2008 04:44:13 -0700 Message-ID: <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210074396 29342 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 11:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 13:47:11 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 1JtLdP-0002Pb-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLch-0008W2-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 07:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLcd-0008Uy-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 07:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLcZ-0008Tk-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 07:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34328 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLcZ-0008Th-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 07:46:11 -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 1JtLcY-0007uI-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 07:46:11 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1210679056.10476@df+dLzEwCyOnUOxoMGBnBQ 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 m46BiDqa012936; Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 03:48:09 -0400") Original-Lines: 27 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:96585 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > Dan Nicolaescu : > > 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. > > That's what I'm working towards. That is, vc-dir-show-directories always > on and simply passing the directory args down to the back ends. That is already done right now. Some backends choke when passed directories though (one that comes to mind is vc-cvs-diff). > > > 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? > > There sure is a difference. They might be the same if "." is the > top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise. That's the confirmation that we needed then, the user has to do C-x v d at the top of the VC controlled tree and do operations on the "." there. No other special casing needed. That should work now (modulo bugs in dealing with directories in various backends)