From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-diff in non-VC buffer Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071010173802.GC787@thyrsus.com> <20071010214929.GB1297@thyrsus.com> <20071010221340.GA1578@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192379605 13123 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2007 16:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 18:33:16 2007 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 1Ih6Ov-0002ZC-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6Op-0000jl-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6LA-0006BG-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6L9-0006AX-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6L9-0006AM-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih6L8-0001jU-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih6L7-0000Kb-IA; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <20071010221340.GA1578@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:80851 Archived-At: How about this: VC can test whether some VCS considers itself responsible for a directory. I could change the logic to error out when no VCS considers itself responsible for the current directory. Would that cover your use case? In user terms, what would the resulting behavior be? Does it implement Stefan's suggestion, which I believe is the right behavior?