From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cvs-mode-diff on marked files Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:51:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87slt4jidd.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134066237 15608 80.91.229.2 (8 Dec 2005 18:23:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 08 19:23:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkQQe-0008Ug-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:23:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkQQw-00031a-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EkOze-0000ql-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EkOze-0000qC-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkOze-0000px-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EkP0h-000157-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867422CF6D4; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:51:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D394AC00A; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:51:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A34BDE6C19; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:51:17 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87slt4jidd.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:47:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.853, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:47235 Archived-At: > I wonder what are the reasons for cvs-mode-diff to ignore selected > files? It is very convenient to mark all relevant files in the *cvs* > buffer and type `=' to generate a composite patch. But currently > `cvs-invert-ignore-marks' contains "diff" by default, thus preventing > `=' to operate on all selected files. It operates only on the current > file at point. Even the documentation string of `cvs-mode-diff' says > "Diff the selected files against the repository" where "selected files" > is in the plural form. With the prefix T you can get what you want: T = As for why, it's mostly historical (that's how it was originally in PCL-CVS when I took over maintenance and it may have been originally due to limitations of early CVS). I actually like it because I often select files to commit and then do diff one file at a time (either to fill the ChangeLog or to decide whether to add the file to set of selected files for commit). Stefan