From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Bogner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [patch] vc-find-root with invert Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:35:46 -0600 Message-ID: References: <486E5CE0.5090004@justinbogner.com> <486E668E.2050600@justinbogner.com> <20080705072126.GA936@tomas> <4884B8FC.9040301@justinbogner.com> <488500C2.8060001@justinbogner.com> <85ej5maodw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <48850C7A.6050800@justinbogner.com> <853am2aljq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216788023 10594 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 04:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 06:41:11 2008 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 1KLWA1-0008Ju-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLW98-0002v9-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLW91-0002v0-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLW8z-0002uf-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43533 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLW8z-0002uc-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37890 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLW8z-0006dh-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLW8w-0001ZC-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from s010600131023ed49.ed.shawcable.net ([68.149.184.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from mail by s010600131023ed49.ed.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s010600131023ed49.ed.shawcable.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) In-Reply-To: <853am2aljq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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:101280 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > The only sort of justification I could imagine is when you are trying to > create a patch and/or work with a file set. Then you want to have some > sort of common root. However, just walking upwards is not guaranteed to > give you such a root: it is perfectly feasible to place some directory > under CVS for backup purposes, but have a non-registered subdirectory > _also_ under CVS with a completely different repository. > This is a very valid point, and given Stefan's argument that these version control systems don't have such concepts, I am somewhat dismayed. The concept of a root directory of a project is extremely useful for things like recursive grep, tags, etc. I find it quite helpful to set the default-directory to the vc root in such circumstances. Oh well, given the arguments, I vote that this is a misfeature and should be removed.