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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: vc-diff in non-VC buffer
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:49:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010214929.GB1297@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0710101431g5d18dc89l8ab063533449a965@mail.gmail.com>

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>:
> On 10/10/07, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> > A recursive check for version differences is not what you expected?
> > It seems the most natural thing to do there.
> 
> When I'm visiting a file that is not under any version control system,
> then no, I don't expect a recursive check. I expect an error message.

Hm.  Even if there are other version-controlled files beneath the 
current directory?

I can change this behavior.  But I was preserving an earlier capability 
to say, in effect, "tell me what has changed under this directory,
*without* making me list all the files to diff".

I think people are likely to become quite upset with me if I
remove that.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10 17:19 vc-diff in non-VC buffer Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 17:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 21:31   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 21:49     ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-10 21:58       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 22:13         ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 22:23           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-10 22:57             ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 23:06               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-14 16:29           ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 22:30       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-10 22:57         ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11  5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 12:00   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 14:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 17:40       ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-13  6:40     ` Richard Stallman

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