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: Testing the new VC code Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:25:21 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141125212521.GC19955@thyrsus.com> References: <87zjbh3r98.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124094929.GA32148@thyrsus.com> <87k32k51ka.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141124104616.GA1744@thyrsus.com> <87fvd8steg.fsf@gmx.de> <20141124130355.GA5432@thyrsus.com> <87bnnwqtfi.fsf@gmx.de> <20141125025054.GA20793@thyrsus.com> <87wq6j1ntp.fsf@gmx.de> 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 1416950773 21880 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 21:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 22:26:06 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 1XtNcb-00059J-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:26:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59600 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtNca-0004r0-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtNc3-0004om-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtNbz-0003sr-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:48917 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtNbu-0003qx-06; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C2F45382BE5; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:25:21 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:178274 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > > I agree with you, that the differences are noticeable only for CVS. > > The purpose of the state-heuristic was to avoid contacting the remote > repository when the user had not requested explicitly the operation > (e.g. computing the file status for the mode-line), or the operation > could be carried locally (e.g. "cvs diff " which uses the > CVS/Base/ copy). > > I.e. not a question of performance, really, more one of making it work > when disconnected. Very well. I think I can restore that behavior in those two back ends. -- Eric S. Raymond