From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ready to start serious work on VC mode again Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:27:34 +1200 Message-ID: <18457.36102.720419.984180@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20080428181932.5BD019F0434@snark.thyrsus.com> <854p9jpm2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080501080904.GB14751@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209635748 23013 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 09:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 11:56:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JrVWY-0000P5-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrVVr-0004WH-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrVV8-00041G-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrVV6-0003zQ-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57703 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrVV5-0003zI-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrVUz-0005CO-Oa; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (108.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.108]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8B03DA348; Thu, 1 May 2008 21:27:36 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC3458FC6D; Thu, 1 May 2008 21:27:35 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <20080501080904.GB14751@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:96274 Archived-At: > > > Are there any know, urgent VC bugs I should address first? > > > > Things that hit me is that using multiple backends does not appear to be > > robust. I have some CVS directory with some files checked into git (but > > not all). When I use C-x v l to get a log file from a file only present > > in git, and then type RET on some log entry, vc bombs out because it > > wants to see the file being in CVS. > > > > Those logs should likely use a local variable to hardware the VC they > > are supposed to work with. > > Noted; I'll look into this. > > Actually, the fact that this is the only "known, urgent" bug report > I've received is encouraging. Multiple back ends is kind of a wacky > edge case; if this is the worst problem VC currently has, it's in > *good* shape. I've not followed VC development closely but surely this can't be right. Dan (or someone else) has placed a whole load of TODO items in vc.el. I still use vc-dired instead of vc-dir because it doesn't respect vc-stay-local/vc-cvs-stay-local. You will also find issues in the archives, e.g., http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg00664.html -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob