From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: vc-ediff
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:46:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilck1j$p5d$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipvqpa6v.fsf@maru.md5i.com>
On 3/11/2011 4:12 AM, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>
> Is this different from `ediff-revision'?
`ediff-revision' asks just a few too many questions. Most of the time,
you just want to compare the current buffer with the latest revision.
So, I find myself having to hit a lot of RETs when I use `ediff-revision'.
ediff's defaults in terms of ediff-last-use-dir are also not right in
the context of vc. I was burned by them on a few occasions. You think
you are comparing the current buffer with its revision, but ediff would
have gone and picked up a file with the same name in the last-use-dir
and started comparing it with its revision. If you maintain multiple
development lines, this might happen more often than one might expect,
and the results can be quite confusing and even dangerous.
The user interface turns out to be just a bit too important in this case.
Cheers,
Uday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 4:20 New function: vc-ediff Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-10 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-11 4:38 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-11 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-12 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 15:05 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-12 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-12 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19 2:24 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-20 2:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22 4:46 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-27 16:03 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-27 20:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 2:42 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-29 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 3:02 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-04-08 1:16 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-04-17 19:04 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-04-20 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 22:20 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-13 16:16 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-13 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-13 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-13 22:58 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-12 15:11 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-12 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-11 4:12 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-03-11 4:44 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-11 7:46 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2011-03-11 8:16 ` martin rudalics
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