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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