From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, esr@snark.thyrsus.com, dann@ics.uci.edu,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC-Dired now lists unregistered files, marked with "?"...
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbq8aaqm2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J8NP6-0006Qp-JO@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:10:08 -0500")
> On the other hand...I'm working on a survey paper on VCSes right now,
> The directory includes a small handful of registered files, and several
> subdirectories that are VCS source trees I'm keeping around for reference.
> Displaying all of the several thousand unregistered files in those trees
> in terse mode just swamps the real information (I tried it that way).
> It sounds like we really want to let the user choose to show or hide
> the unregistered files.
PCL-CVS has never offered such an option and nobody has ever asked
for it. Just show those files and let the user place them in .fooignore
if they don't want to see them.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-29 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-27 16:20 VC-Dired now lists unregistered files, marked with "?" Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-27 19:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-28 10:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 13:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-28 19:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-28 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-29 17:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 18:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-29 7:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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