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: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141211123629.GA25499@thyrsus.com> <87a92uuicq.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418329358 17688 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 20:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:22:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 21:22:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAFp-00031c-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAFp-00039A-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAFU-00031U-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAFI-0002fH-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:3642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAFI-0002f2-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:56 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflTO+ILA/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBVigLCzQSFBgNiG4J1lkBCyCQdhaEMgWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflTO+ILA/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBVigLCzQSFBgNiG4J1lkBCyCQdhaEMgWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="100223621" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-192.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.192]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 Dec 2014 15:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8091412FD; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:28:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179832 Archived-At: > Using vc-git in this way is hampered by vc-git not tracking history > across renames. Indeed, vc-git.el should use --follow when possible. BTW, while implementing vc-region-history (which only works with vc-git so far and for the foreseeable future) I noticed that Git does not support --follow for the -L%d,%d:%s case, even though that only applies to a single file. Stefan