From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Having vc mode recognize file under git version control Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:22:08 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <181uws4gdr.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <87vcu5ky2t.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313043723 26721 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2011 06:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:22:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 08:22:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeV-0004BQ-HB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeU-0006kp-PW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeQ-0006kj-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeP-0008Hb-Hy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeP-0008HX-Ct for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrOeN-00048z-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sKjPkxS5EWJFMkdN2tTfmyBD5Iw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81928 Archived-At: Laird Nelson writes: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Vijay Lakshminarayanan < > laksvij@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Would git's being absent from Emacs' path be responsible for > this?  > Yes, that is the reason Emacs isn't picking up git and enabling > vc on > the page. > > > Thanks; I figured it would only be looking for a .git directory or > something similar, not making a determination of whether something is > under version control based solely on the path.  Don't get me wrong; > I'm sure there is a good reason.  It would have helped to see a > message in the status bar.  Thanks again for your help. > The reason is that if its not on the path it cant use the git executable..