From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix in vc-ignore-dir-regexp Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:07:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17970.50750.556614.101415@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177787413 20619 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 19:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raman@users.sf.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 21:10:10 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 1HhsJ8-0005Ma-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:10:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsP7-0002at-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsP3-0002an-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsP3-0002ab-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsP2-0002aY-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhsJ3-0008D7-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhsGK-0002gQ-5t; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:07:16 -0400 X-Spook: Ruby Ridge wire transfer electronic surveillance ANZUS X-Ran: udk;=^sE?bdpV.R%W`7~0'I%D>UL1aD,P?h=zzn.g=[IDOqbH+@)ja%m<+sd_!nteHGBUl X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:10:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: 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:70344 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In particular vc systems that need to ascend the directory tree >> looking for vc directories should not appear in the default list. > > Given that all recent vc systems (other than Subversion) need to ascend the > directory tree, I think it's too drastic. > > But it did occur to me recently that maybe a good heuristic to decide when > to stop looking up is to check the directory's owner (and stop when it > changes). That's clever. I have removed MCVS et al from my vc-handled-backends after getting annoyed with all the messages from the automounter when it failed to find /home/MCVS etc.