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: vc-directory breakage Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 05:03:45 -0700 Message-ID: <200805061203.m46C3jOS020903@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080506000456.GA14206@thyrsus.com> <200805060036.m460aVto021222@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506004849.GA14523@thyrsus.com> <200805060110.m461A565005739@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506090128.GG23773@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210075517 783 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 12:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , 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 14:05:49 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 1JtLui-0001SD-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLu0-0008Ic-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLty-0008IV-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLtw-0008Hy-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44125 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtLtw-0008Hv-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:04:08 -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 1JtLtv-00049n-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 08:04:08 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1210680226.27507@+h2X2ZjLXJF/tnNiKGKTVA 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 m46C3jOS020903; Tue, 6 May 2008 05:03:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080506090128.GG23773@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 05:01:28 -0400") Original-Lines: 23 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:96587 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > Dan Nicolaescu : > > > What is the actual failure you are seeing? > > > > For a mercurial repo: > > > > intern(nil [0 0 0 0 Makefile\.mk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ~/r/hgtest/ 0 0]) > > vc-file-getprop(nil vc-mtn-root) > > vc-mtn-root("Makefile.mk") > > vc-mtn-responsible-p("Makefile.mk") > > apply(vc-mtn-responsible-p "Makefile.mk") > > vc-call-backend(Mtn responsible-p "Makefile.mk") > > This looks to me like a failure in the root backend method, not a generic > problem in the VC front end. What am I missing here? A few lines below what you cited: vc-responsible-backend("Makefile.mk") ^^^^^^^^^^^^ either having the backend available, or using an absolute file name would make this work.