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: The VC to-do list Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 22:50:17 -0700 Message-ID: <200805030550.m435oI0Q014899@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080502211447.207E09F051D@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209793939 24034 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 05:52:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 05:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 07:52:54 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 1JsAfy-0002qM-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 07:52:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsAfH-0004tj-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 01:52:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsAf8-0004tX-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 01:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsAf5-0004t8-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 01:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49296 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsAf5-0004t5-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 01:51:55 -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 1JsAf5-0002xI-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 01:51:55 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1210398618.6903@WY4qjDAYN8SGNfhJeOp72Q 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 m435oI0Q014899; Fri, 2 May 2008 22:50:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080502211447.207E09F051D@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Fri, 2 May 2008 17:14:47 -0400 (EDT)") Original-Lines: 31 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:96363 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > (1) ;; - vc-dir-kill-dir-status-process should not be specific to dir-status, > ;; it should work for other async commands as well (pull/push/...). > > Agreed. Even the async diff code is in this category > > Dan, the near term VC-specific fix for this one should probably be > yours, if you can find time to do it; I don't understand the ewoc > interface well enough yet, and there are other things I should do to > VC that are more urgent than learning ewoc. Like item (2). This is actually Stefan's addition. It shouldn't be too hard to fix: all the asynchronous commands need a buffer to run in, just find a way to keep track of that buffer and kill it+the associated process when necessary. > (11) ;; - add a mechanism for ignoring files. > > I'm not clear why. Under what circumstances do we need this when > the VCS doesn't do it for us? This is about adding a way to tell the VCS to ignore certain files. > (23) ;; - vc-dir listing needs a footer generated when it's done to make it > ;; obvious that it has finished. > > This is totally a ewoc interface issue. Yours, Dan, I think. I'm not convinced it's useful, the mode-line displays [Waiting...] when something is going on.