From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the list of modified files in VC?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:51:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760ef3ubd.fsf@jane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838tjc7fth.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2017-07-25, at 16:26, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 07:32:50 +0200
>>
>> I'm writing some code on top of VC. I'd need to get the list of
>> modified files in the current repository. How do I do that (other than
>> firing git as an external process)?
>
> I suggest to look at what vc-dir-refresh does, I'm sure some variant
> of that is what you want. The back-end call 'dir-status-files' is the
> backbone of this.
Thanks, but I still have questions. I learned about
vc-BACKEND-dir-status-files functions, but I don't really understand how
to use one. And they are not extremely well documented...
This is not a huge problem - I can always just run git directly - but
I wanted to do it "the right way";-).
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 5:32 How to get the list of modified files in VC? Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-25 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-26 18:51 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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2017-07-25 17:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
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