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: VC-Dired now lists unregistered files, marked with "?"... Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071227162028.E8C1C830BC9@snark.thyrsus.com> <200712271931.lBRJVYn7017640@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <20071228102634.GD23009@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198914562 6851 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2007 07:49:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, esr@snark.thyrsus.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 08:49:36 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 1J8WRq-0006uQ-H5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:49:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WRV-0007HT-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WRS-0007Eu-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WRR-0007DD-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8WRR-0007Cn-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8WRM-0004Lg-Rp; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from bas-flu-bbcs-dynip-203-020.vtx.ch ([83.228.203.20] helo=ceviche.home) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8WRM-0002Nx-0b; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 25243B4108; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:10:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:85594 Archived-At: > 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