From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-dir drops directory prefix Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <857ieu3l8t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208589205 12056 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2008 07:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 19 09:14:02 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JmyA3-0003H3-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmy9O-0002Yq-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmy9K-0002Yb-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmy9E-0002YH-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmy9E-0002YE-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jmy9E-0000Io-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.19]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0CF1F5147; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.56]) by mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D828D2C8770; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-170.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.170]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBF5236E47; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0BE351C452D2; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:45:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6833/Fri Apr 18 21:59:19 2008 on mail-in-16.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:95437 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> vc-dir is losing the directory prefix of modified files. For example, >>> edit src/.gdbinit in the emacs repo, then run vc-dir on the toplevel. > ^^^^^^^^^^ >>> The output contains an entry for .gdbinit instead of src/.gdbinit. >> >> Please include information about which backend(s) you used, since the >> bug may be in the backend. > > See above. We have cross-synchronized CVS and arch repositories of Emacs and a read-only git mirror, all rather officially on Savannah. Instead of pointing out Stefan's inadequacy, you could have just written the backend you mean. It would have taken you less work, had caused less annoyance, and would have quite unambiguously given the required information that still is not there. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum