Re: Redesigh of the VC front end

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
  > > vc-dir has "." too, but it's not shown by default (one needs to set
  > > vc-dir-show-directories to get it) because various VC operations don't
  > > do too well when passed directories... When that is fixed, we can show
  > > it by default.
  > 
  > That's what I'm working towards.  That is, vc-dir-show-directories always
  > on and simply passing the directory args down to the back ends.

That is already done right now.  Some backends choke when passed
directories though (one that comes to mind is vc-cvs-diff).

  > >   > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo".
  > > 
  > > There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. 
  > > Can we please have an answer to for the above question?
  > 
  > There sure is a difference.  They might be the same if "." is the 
  > top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise.  

That's the confirmation that we needed then, the user has to do 
C-x v d at the top of the VC controlled tree and do operations on the
"."  there.  No other special casing needed.  That should work now
(modulo bugs in dealing with directories in various backends)