From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC state Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:40:48 -0700 Message-ID: <200804061740.m36Hemw8021394@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207503817 11653 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2008 17:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 06 19:44:09 2008 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 1JiYuW-0003HC-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiYtt-0003nG-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiYtp-0003n2-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiYto-0003mR-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiYtn-0003mO-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiYtn-0005Vh-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:43:23 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1208108450.20656@xwOPVea5kLNifSyiZ7mq7g Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m36Hemw8021394; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:40:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:54:24 -0400") Original-Lines: 41 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:94494 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I tried to use vc-status with Bzr and found that VC still needs some > work to adjust it to current VCS realities: Please add to vc.el:Todo the items that are not already there. > - `vc-update' should do a `bzr pull'. > - `vc-merge' only operates on a single file. > - `vc-merge' takes revisions as arguments rather than a branch (plus > optional revisions). > > The above changes will require changing some of the backend operations, > since those operations will need to somehow return a list of files > changed. > > The vc-status UI also needs more work: The main question for vc-status is: should it be bound to C-x v d now? It's already better than vc-dired. And it would be good if more people use it/hack on it to shake the remaining bugs sooner rather than later. > - there should be a way to operate on (sub)directories. You mean something more than M-x vc-status DIR/SUBDIR RET ? > - it should be possible to add an entry in the display (like PCL-CVS's > `I') so as to then operate on it. Interesting, didn't know about this feature. I'll implement this. > - indicate files with conflicts (probably requires changes in backends > as well to provide that info). This has been in Todo for a while, displaying this stuff is trivial, VC needs just to provide the information. Someone just needs to sit down and figure out how it's supposed to work in VC... > - the modeline says "*VC status* from *vc-status*". Fixed.