From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to get a list of changed files with VC? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:40:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83379we0vt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgntdt9f.fsf@drachen> <0571a5da-53a5-7b26-fd8e-c3981d7d154c@yandex.ru> <83pod1egee.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500226825 19088 195.159.176.226 (16 Jul 2017 17:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 16 19:40:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWn-0004iQ-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWs-0005Vv-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57751) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWm-0005Vp-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWi-0003RX-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWi-0003RR-Ax; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3217 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dWnWh-00013S-Nv; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:40:16 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:12:33 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216744 Archived-At: > Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:12:33 +0300 > > >> Maybe calling the VC backend diff command on the whole repo and > >> parsing the output could work. > > > > I think Git is the odd one out providing this information as a > > side-effect of a diff command (with a option that makes little sense > > for a diff command). All the other back-ends I know of provide the > > info as part of the status command. I think. > > Not sure which information you mean. I only suggested diff because one > call pass a reference revision to it. I meant the files that changed between two revisions. AFAIU, that's what Michael was after.