Re: Re: Heads up, VC front end about to undergo major surgery

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
> Can you please expand on what will change?  Directories are passed to VC
> operations right now (and you can mark/unmark them in the UI too)

I'm going to get rid of as much as possible of the wacky
special-casing in vc-deduce-fileset (eliminating, if possible, the
present one required and three optional args).  As I previously noted,
it has 6 messy rules for how to compute a selection set.  I aim to
reduce that to 3.  It is not impossible that I might get it down to 2.

One user-visible difference is that there will be no more *implicit*
selection of directories in the case that no fileset is available.

I think the UI of at least one capability, vc-diff, will change
significantly.  The present interface to it is a kluge forced on us by
our previous inability to select directories.

> If anything goes wrong with the git backend, please contact the
> maintainer.  He might already have fixes.

I'm not using git for anything yet.  Thus, if anything goes wrong with the 
git backend, he is almost certain to notice it before I do.  
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