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: My plans for VC mode Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:07 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141122163707.GC25909@thyrsus.com> References: <20141122133351.46279382C23@snark.thyrsus.com> <86r3wvb900.fsf@yandex.ru> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416674251 9080 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2014 16:37:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 17:37:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDgV-0006q2-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDgV-0003EB-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDgO-0003Di-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDgJ-0007VA-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:35194 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsDgJ-0007V6-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8B3AD382B8A; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:37:07 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86r3wvb900.fsf@yandex.ru> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178026 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov : > http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/diff-hl.html, for example, uses `vc-state', > as well as `diff', `dir-status' and `dir-status-files', and relies on > their current semantics (even if they're a bit broken in certain > implementations; I intend to improve that). vc-state is likely to surivive with unaltered semantics. So is diff. `dir-status' and `dir-status-files', on the other hand...there is a comment in vc.el that reads: ;; - Another important thing: merge all the status-like backend operations. ;; We should remove dir-status, state, and dir-status-files, and ;; replace them with just `status' which takes a fileset and a continuation ;; (like dir-status) and returns a buffer in which the process(es) are run ;; (or nil if it worked synchronously). I think this is a good thing to aim at. -- Eric S. Raymond