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>:
  > > "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).
  > 
  > 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?

Note that I am not referring to CVS breaking here, it works fine with
directory arguments, but the VC backend functions don't deal well with
directories (vc-cvs-diff is such an example, but there are others too).

So the basic infrastructure for this should be functional now, but all
functions in all backends need testing to make sure they work OK, and
fix the bugs that show up.  Unfortunately I don't have the time to do
this now...