From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Limitations of Emacs' vc when using modern backends
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:37:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wti73ue7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7i8xunt9ub.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> (Juliusz Chroboczek's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:42:04 +0100")
> 1. It should be possible for a backend to override vc-previous-version.
> 2. vc-previous-version should take the file name in addition to the
> revision.
Sure.
> 3. vc should call a backend-specific function (say
> vc-BACKEND-canonical-revision) to normalise a revision name (again,
> one that takes both a revision and a file name) before creating a
> buffer.
I'm not sure I understand what it's supposed to do.
> (3) Darcs identifies revisions by a 65-character long hash of a bunch
> of data, which is not something you want to type. Because of that,
> vc-darcs allows identifying a revision by a number of different means
> (see vc-darcs-rev-to-hash if you want the gory details).
Is this specific to vc-darcs or to darcs? Could you show what it
does concretely?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-15 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-15 1:42 Limitations of Emacs' vc when using modern backends Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-12-15 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-15 14:59 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-12-15 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-15 17:55 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-12-15 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-15 14:37 ` Andre Spiegel
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