From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ready to start serious work on VC mode again Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 04:09:04 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080501080904.GB14751@thyrsus.com> References: <20080428181932.5BD019F0434@snark.thyrsus.com> <854p9jpm2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209629350 4986 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 08:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 10:09:46 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 1JrTrN-0003VJ-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 10:09:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrTqg-0008DT-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrTqc-0008BK-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrTqa-00086g-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41661 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrTqa-00086U-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrTqa-0007W2-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrTqV-0006Vg-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7E3189F04EE; Thu, 1 May 2008 04:09:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <854p9jpm2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 222560 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at nadesico; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:46 EDT X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:96270 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > > > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond