From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-directory breakage
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:03:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506160339.GA10771@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805061203.m46C3jOS020903@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>
> > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
> > > > 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.
OK, then I think I've fixed this one already.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 15:21 vc-directory breakage Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-05 15:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 15:39 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 15:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 16:03 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:23 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-05 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-05 17:00 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-05-05 20:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-05 22:09 ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-05 22:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-06 0:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 0:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 0:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 8:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-06 16:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-07 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 1:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 9:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-06 12:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-06 16:03 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2008-05-06 6:36 ` David Kastrup
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