From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:33:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqiog0ox6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviog0dx6q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:33:20 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> It looks like root is a personal preference, there's still not much in
>> terms of solid arguments of why to change a long time default, and the
>> patch doesn't even give a way to get the current behavior, which most
>> people like.
>
> We don't really know what "most people like". What we do know is that
> the world of revision control has changed a lot since that code was
> written: back then, there was simply no notion of "project root".
That's not quite true, I wrote vc-dir.el in 2007, mostly to deal better
with git and hg project, "project root" was quite well known at a time.
> And since many operations in recent VCSes operate on the whole project,
> I think it's very reasonable to assume that users will generally want to
> see the whole project.
That suffers from the same problem in our first paragraph...
> It's at least my case and Daniel's case.
>
> We can provide the default-directory in M-n or something like that, but
> Daniel's patch is good.
I strongly disagree.
I provided an alternative suggestion: make C-u C-x v d default to the
root directory, or something to put it in history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-21 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-10 6:52 vc-dir default directory: repository root? Daniel Colascione
2015-01-11 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-11 8:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-11 15:53 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-11 19:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-19 1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 15:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-19 23:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-20 20:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-21 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-21 16:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 17:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2015-01-21 17:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 18:22 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 18:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 19:22 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 18:47 ` João Távora
2015-01-21 19:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 20:14 ` João Távora
2015-01-21 20:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 12:40 ` João Távora
2015-01-22 15:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-21 19:35 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-21 19:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-21 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 9:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 1:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 9:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 11:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 12:04 ` Jan D.
2015-01-22 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 14:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 14:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 16:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 14:45 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-22 14:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:50 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-22 16:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 16:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-19 1:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-19 4:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-19 14:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 14:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-19 22:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
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