From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, 737@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date"
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:10:33 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18664.8729.772040.885969@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810050224.m952OBGw028267@mothra.ics.uci.edu>
> > It sounds like you want vc-dir to ignore vc-stay-local, which I would
> > suggest is something that needs documenting.
>
> I just don't think it should be the default. I do think that it's
> fundamentally broken, so I don't want to have anything to do with it.
It might be sensible to make vc-stay-local default to nil but to just ignore
it will only confuse users.
> > Or introduce a vc-dir-stay-local, default nil?
>
> I'd prefer it *stay-local would not pollute vc-dir.el, none of the
> modern VC systems needs it, so there's no good reason to deal with it in
> the future.
We've been here before and some of us said that we found vc-stay-local useful.
There are probably many users, RMS included, who don't have permanent or fast
access to the Internet. I think that's a good reason to deal with it.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-05 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-17 21:12 bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date" Bob Rogers
2008-10-03 1:46 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-03 5:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-03 7:07 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-03 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-04 5:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 0:44 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 1:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 1:27 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 1:45 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 2:01 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 15:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 23:47 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 2:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 2:10 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-10-05 23:43 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-06 0:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-06 6:26 ` Nick Roberts
2008-10-06 7:33 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-06 7:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-06 9:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-10-08 7:43 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-09 4:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-10 1:39 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-07 5:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-07 19:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-08 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-05 2:17 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-07 5:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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