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: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210124253 733 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 01:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 01:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 03:38:07 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 1JtYbf-00087a-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 03:38:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYax-0008SJ-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYat-0008S4-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYas-0008RW-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48145 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYas-0008RT-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtYar-0006i5-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgoFAJukIEhMCqqd/2dsb2JhbACBU6tS X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,445,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="20002526" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 06 May 2008 21:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.170.157]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id NGS95315; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 85B748E5F; Tue, 6 May 2008 21:37:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 03:48:09 -0400") 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:96626 Archived-At: > That's what I'm working towards. That is, vc-dir-show-directories always > on and simply passing the directory args down to the back ends. Sounds good. >> > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo". >> There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. >> Can we please have an answer to for the above question? > There sure is a difference. They might be the same if "." is the > top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise. I don't think we should provide a way for the user to operate on a part of the tree which is not shown in the buffer. We may want to provide a way to "cd ..", but nothing more. Stefan