From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, ams@gnu.org, claus.klingberg@gmail.com,
eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:40:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdxkmz55.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8wuhki4y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:09:21 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I don't think this will fly: currently VC works even when you're looking
>> at a project to which you don't have write access, so neither the files
>> nor the .git might be writable.
>
>> AFAIK, atleast for git, you must have write access, if you do not you
>> cannot ceate a lock file.
>
> So you need write access even just to do things like diff or even
> just diff-index? That's too bad. So maybe for Git we could use that
> refinement of my heuristic, but it wouldn't help for other backends.
I have no idea what ams is talking about here -- operations like
log-viewing and diffing seem to work just fine in git without write
access.
-Miles
--
We live, as we dream -- alone....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-16 9:17 vc-git bug with top-level repositories Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 14:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 16:24 ` Claus
2008-08-18 16:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 20:10 ` Claus
2008-08-18 20:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 11:01 ` Claus
2008-08-19 12:00 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 16:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 20:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-19 21:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-20 2:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-20 9:18 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-20 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-20 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <86bpzn4qw2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2008-08-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-20 22:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:17 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-29 0:40 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-08-29 14:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <1219912261.8925.63.camel@ubuntu804desktop.localdomain>
[not found] ` <jwvd4jt87g0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-28 19:19 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 20:12 ` Claus
2008-10-25 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-27 12:43 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 14:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-29 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-19 20:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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