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: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:22:47 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080506162247.GD10771@thyrsus.com> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> 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 1210090945 26094 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2008 16:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 18:22:58 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 1JtPwL-0001AV-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 18:22:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtPvd-0001eF-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtPva-0001dz-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtPvZ-0001cm-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54699 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtPvY-0001cT-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtPvY-0008Va-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 12:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3FE409F054C; Tue, 6 May 2008 12:22:47 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:96594 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu : > "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > > > Dan Nicolaescu : > > > 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). Ah, that's good to know. I know that SCCS and RCS don't do directory arguments at all, and I believe that Subversion and everything after handles them pretty well. That leaves CVS as the place where support is partial. Do you know other CVS operations where it breaks? -- Eric S. Raymond