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: Wed, 7 May 2008 00:14:05 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080507041405.GA31035@thyrsus.com> References: <20080506003943.80ED89F054C@snark.thyrsus.com> <200805060200.m4620Sw7023511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080506074809.GA23773@thyrsus.com> 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 1210133664 19148 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 04:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 04:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 06:14:57 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 1Jtb36-00011o-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 06:14:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36452 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtb2C-0006H9-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtb26-0006G6-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtb24-0006F4-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54092 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtb24-0006Ew-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:32 -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 1Jtb23-00008I-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BD559F0550; Wed, 7 May 2008 00:14:05 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:96649 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > >> > 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. > > I don't think we should provide a way for the user to operate on a part > of the tree which is not shown in the buffer. We may want to provide > a way to "cd ..", but nothing more. Hm. That would be a reasonable alternative. -- Eric S. Raymond