From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Option to customize the -m message flag of cvs? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:08 +0100 Message-ID: <49590470.4080306@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230570756 16043 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2008 17:12:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:12:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 29 18:13:42 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 1LHLgQ-0006L3-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:13:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHLfC-0000rt-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHLf8-0000rZ-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHLf6-0000rI-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46112 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHLf6-0000r8-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58168) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LHLf6-0004pS-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2008 17:12:13 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-49-225.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.49.225]) [62.47.49.225] by mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 29 Dec 2008 18:12:13 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19LPllrcK9LyqnSvw1xJTG46IO+OdrH8tvIe8dli8 hje7bq8QJIVmDC User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:107378 Archived-At: > The ad can be circumvented by using the new option -M instead of -m. > Unfortunately, "-m" is hardcoded in at least three places of > vc-cvs.el. > > Would it be possible to add some kind of option to customize the > message flag passed to CVS? I recently switched to CVSNT because I was not able to run `vc-dir' for Emacs directories with my cvs 1.11.19 executable. However, `vc-dir' seems a prerequisite for implementing Miles' request on emacs-devel from 2008-11-20: I'd suggest tracking the git mirror instead; it does a pretty good job of packaging up related file changes into single commits, as long as the user committed them all at once with CVS. Many people _don't_ do that, of course, but that's largely for historical reasons, and hopefully they can be convinced to start doing so. So on Windows there's not only historical reasons but also the practical one of having a CVS executable able to handle updates and commits as requested. To avoid the advert, I had to replace all occurrences of "-m" with "-M" in vc-cvs.el. An option for customizing this would be therefore greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, martin.