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 21:34:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210124091 425 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 01:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 01:34:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 03:35:25 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 1JtYZ3-0007Xe-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 03:35:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYYK-0007dc-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYYH-0007dR-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYYC-0007d1-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48080 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtYYC-0007cy-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtYYC-0006Lx-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:32 -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="20002469" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 06 May 2008 21:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.170.157]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id NGP01520; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8E8CD8E5F; Tue, 6 May 2008 21:34:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:28 -0700") 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:96625 Archived-At: >> > 2. When the backend supports the concept, every vc-dir buffer has a >> > special top-line entry that can be marked to select the entire repo. >> >> In PCL-CVS we list subdirectories, including ".", which is hence not >> particularly special. > vc-dir has "." too, but it's not shown by default (one needs to set > vc-dir-show-directories to get it) because various VC operations don't > do too well when passed directories... When that is fixed, we can show > it by default. The trunk is where development takes place. We want to fix those problem with directories, so we want to expose those bugs, not hide them. Stefan