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From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:32:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejihjvmd.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200708052206.l75M63Hx012575@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu


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Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   > I've noticed lately that VC can behave badly when trying to build
>   > one of my Emacs Lisp add-on programs.  If a file has been deleted
>   > at some point, it will interrupt the build to prompt me about
>   > whether to restore it -- this is a show-stopper.  Also, even when
>   > building Emacs (as of a week ago, at least), VC prints several
>   > spurious messages on the console; they are harmless in this case,
>   > but nonetheless provide needless clutter.
>
> Were you working with files under bzr? vc-bzr had a bug that Stefan
> fixed recently.

Yes, it happened with vc-bzr.

> If not, can you please describe the problem that you are seeing?
>
>   > I think that VC should be disabled by default when emacs is passed
>   > the -batch option.  The attached patch implements this.  Is it OK
>   > if I install it?  VC is supposed to be for working interactively
>   > with version control systems, so I can't see any reason not to
>   > install the patch.
>
> If the reason you want to do this to avoid bugs in VC, then IMO this
> is not a good idea. If VC has a problem, it has to be fixed.

That is not the only reason.  I want vc disabled when in -batch mode
because it is (1) useless there, (2) delays compilation, and (3)
displays many "loading vc-<system>..." messages that clutter the
compilation output.  This bug was just the straw that broke the camel's
back.

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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 19:39 [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Michael Olson
2007-08-05 22:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-06  1:32   ` Michael Olson [this message]
2007-08-06  5:20     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06  2:36   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-06 16:33     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:07       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07  8:59           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:46       ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 21:22         ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 10:18           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:46               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:40           ` Michael Olson
2007-08-08  4:54             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 13:07               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 13:29               ` Michael Olson
2007-08-09  5:23                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 15:53         ` Edward O'Connor
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-06 19:16   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  0:44     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-07  3:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-07  6:07       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  6:51         ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 20:11         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:42           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09  0:06             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-09  0:17               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 16:38                 ` chad brown
2007-08-12 17:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15  4:14                     ` chad brown
2007-08-16  1:08                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 15:46                   ` Davis Herring

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