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-*-root finctions Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:21:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87skzn3mq9.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203528191 2113 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 17:23:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 18:23:34 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 1JRsfF-00028U-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:23:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRsek-0001hK-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRsdw-0001Ey-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRsdt-0001Cn-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRsdt-0001Cf-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRsdt-0003M3-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:22:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAMXwu0fO+J2cdGdsb2JhbACQUgEwoAOBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,382,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14755730" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2008 12:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.156]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ATP18356; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D09657F48; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:21:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87skzn3mq9.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:12:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:89713 Archived-At: > ;; - root (dir) > ;; > ;; Return DIR's "root" directory, that is, a parent directory of > ;; DIR for which the same backend as used for DIR applies. If no > ;; such parent exists, this function should return DIR. This part I inferred, but of course it is necessary (weren't you the guy complaining harshly about lack of comments in VC's in-development code ;-)? > I am using vc-BACKEND-root for (work-in-progress, see below) > `vc-status-mode' munging. I don't understand what for (in terms of user-level feature)? Stefan