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: Redesigh of the VC front end Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 19:15:33 -0700 Message-ID: <200805070215.m472FXWt013408@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> <200805061144.m46BiDqa012936@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210126603 5536 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 02:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 02:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 04:17:17 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 1JtZDY-0007zi-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 04:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtZCp-0000ow-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtZCl-0000ms-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtZCk-0000m0-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44098 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtZCj-0000lt-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:25 -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 1JtZCj-0005iS-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:25 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1210731333.74103@ZtemfKt68KMqlIApCV1GDA 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 m472FXWt013408; Tue, 6 May 2008 19:15:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:13 -0400") Original-Lines: 11 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:96635 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > That is already done right now. Some backends choke when passed > > directories though (one that comes to mind is vc-cvs-diff). > > Sounds like a bug in vc-cvs-diff. `cvs diff ' works just > fine AFAIK. Yep, that's exactly my point. Although it's not exactly a bug, I don't remember the exact details, it's about using some VC functions that expect file argument on arguments that are not files...