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: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:02:40 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141123200240.GB28683@thyrsus.com> References: <20141122133351.46279382C23@snark.thyrsus.com> <86r3wvb900.fsf@yandex.ru> <877fym3jvp.fsf@dod.no> 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 1416773011 10873 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2014 20:03:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:03:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 21:03:26 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 1XsdNT-0005ND-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:03:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdNS-00066t-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdNL-00065R-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdNH-0000rm-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:48424 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdNG-0000ri-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2479382F36; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:02:40 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877fym3jvp.fsf@dod.no> 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:178121 Archived-At: Steinar Bang : > Well, whether there will be a rewrite or not, here's a bug I would very > much like to see fixed: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8756 > > Ie. make vc-git.el's 'C-x v l' track history across renames (and make > stuff like annotate and diff from hashes work past renames). That would be *quite* hard, and is out of scope of my plans. The extent to which VCSes make it even possible to track across renames varies a lot; the mechanisms for it, where they exist, are complex and tend to be flaky. Even if we restrict attention to git, log --follow only works on single files... -- Eric S. Raymond