From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:12:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2oix431.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bllfqj82.fsf@warpmail.net> <83o8pfxhzq.fsf@gnu.org> <83imfnxgt3.fsf@gnu.org> <83eeqbxevp.fsf@gnu.org> <87bllfnjy5.fsf@thornhill.no> <83d05vx9or.fsf@gnu.org> <877dw3ne2z.fsf@thornhill.no> <83a70zx7ag.fsf@gnu.org> <874kr6oqz1.fsf@thornhill.no> <834kr6yk27.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="61226"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theothornhill@pm.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 21:13:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jmMRo-000FrF-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmMRn-0002i2-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmMRD-0001wb-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmMRD-0000Tw-2q; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4504 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jmMRB-0005x0-64; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:12:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:04:49 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252409 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:04:49 +0300 > > > And even if the backend is Git, no one said that I want all of the > > files in the repository to be part of my project. I may be working on > > a project that includes just a handful of files from a repository that > > has thousands of them. > > That is, again, true. But what of the rest of files in that repository? > Do they belong to a different project? Yes. > Do you also visit them, or not? Not as part of working on the current project. Though I might decide to add some of them to the current project, as the need arises. > If both answers are "no", then the current approach should work well > enough. Otherwise, you're welcome to file a new bug report with more > details, and we'll see what can be improved to accommodate that > situation too. Which details are needed? In any case, my point was that relying on the VCS to determine what is and isn't in the project presents a restriction that a general-purpose project-handling facility should lift early on to be useful, IMO.