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: 23.0.50; vc: missing done in progress message Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r6g2zj68.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87tzkx10bz.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <9l7ihs4cut.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87prvj3fg4.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 1201741022 17841 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 00:57:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Ulrich Neumerkel To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 01:57:22 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 1JKNk1-0000vA-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:57:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKNja-0003su-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKNjW-0003sf-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKNjU-0003sQ-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKNjU-0003sN-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKNjU-0006J3-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JKNjT-0007cp-1b; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:47 -0500 X-Spook: Reno Fedayeen fundamentalist class struggle SEAL Team 6 X-Ran: "DG/gSV3*nZJDTm^/c*[mQ~_fcrH6=1s}uKx`_/in7\y\u3-B:T(^t(b-YY[j$<02L]z<+ X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:87824 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Please post the experiment so that it can be reproduced. > Start w/ "emacs -Q". emacs -Q --eval '(setq vc-command-messages t)' file/under/svn modify file C-x v = -> buffer with differences and message: "Running svn diff filename...OK = 0" Anyway, the only point I'm trying to make is that "OK = 0" is useless as a status message, because it could mean anything: 1) The diff command completed succesfully (exit status 0 in a shell command sense). There may or may not be differences. 2) The diff command failed (0 is false in a C sense). 3) There were no differences (the GNU diff exit status convention). Something like "...done" or "...failed" would be a lot clearer IMO. I supposed I should either just change it myself or forget about it.