all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rudi@constantly.at, eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
	cjpeople2013@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, mardani29@yahoo.es,
	joaotavora@gmail.com, manuel.uberti@inventati.org,
	juri@linkov.net, salutis@me.com, arstoffel@gmail.com,
	41572@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:58:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335a3p9xy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d879ae36-9e93-73df-e310-da9f65860d29@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:41:59 +0200)

> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:41:59 +0200
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rudi@constantly.at, eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
>  cjpeople2013@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, mardani29@yahoo.es,
>  joaotavora@gmail.com, manuel.uberti@inventati.org, juri@linkov.net,
>  salutis@me.com, arstoffel@gmail.com, 41572@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> >      A directory containing such a marker file or a file matching a marker
> >      pattern will be recognized as the root of a project whose type is
> >      "VC project".
> 
> If you say quote help, it's fine by me.
> 
> > The point of this is to tell that those markers indicate projects whose type
> > just happens to be "VC project".  Otherwise the above could be interpreted
> > that the markers can be used only inside VC projects.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> >> Like the patch also says (and what's given me a pause in the past), that
> >> also makes "VC project" somewhat a misnomer. But I'm not sure what to
> >> call them better
> > How about VC-backed project?
> 
> Is that different?

I don't know.  You asked for alternatives, and that is what I could think
of.

> I would say it might be worse: "VC-backed" sounds 
> like a project that must correspond to a VC repository (be "backed" by it).

It usually is, isn't it?

If it doesn't have to, then we should look for a different name ASAP, one
that doesn't include "VC" at all.

> OTOH a new term we could use would stand for something like: a project 
> type which will recognize the enabled kinds of VC repositories and use 
> their roots as project root, and knows how to use certain VC systems to 
> speed up the fetching of files, and knows about Git submodules, but also 
> recognizes other directories (inside or outside of VC repositories) 
> based on configurable conditions.

If this type of project doesn't have to be "backed by a VCS", then what does
distinguish it from other types of projects?





  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-28 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28  3:32 bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project Zhu Zihao
2020-05-28  7:42 ` Philip K.
2020-05-28 11:20   ` Zihao Zhu
2020-05-28 12:24     ` Philip K.
2020-06-03 11:04       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-05-28 11:27   ` Zhu Zihao
2020-05-28 12:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-28 15:46   ` Zihao Zhu
2020-05-28 19:58     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-29  4:34       ` Zihao Zhu
2020-05-29  7:11         ` Philip K.
2020-05-29 13:58         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-02 23:40   ` Juri Linkov
2020-06-05 19:02     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-05 19:22       ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-05 23:11         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-06  8:48           ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-06 11:15             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-06 11:53               ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-06 12:17                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-06 13:37                   ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-07-20 20:55                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-01  3:11                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25 23:13                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-26  6:38                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-03 18:06                           ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05  2:03                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05  2:08                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05  6:52                               ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 12:42                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05 16:32                                   ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-06  7:21                                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-06 16:29                                       ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-06 21:16                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-06 21:13                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-07  7:17                                         ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-07 13:41                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-10 16:47                                             ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-11  0:40                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05 14:39                           ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-05 15:03                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05 15:21                               ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-05 16:56                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-05 18:19                                   ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-06  0:11                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-06 14:09                                       ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-07  2:27                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-07 13:08                                           ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-08  2:12                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-08 16:24                                               ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-11  1:57                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-11 18:05                                                   ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-10-17  2:48                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-10-17 11:52                                                       ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-09-26  0:22                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  1:49                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  7:47                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26 13:22                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26 14:27                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27  1:08                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-27  6:46                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 14:10                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-27 14:27                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 15:51                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-27 16:43                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 21:41                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-28 11:58                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-28 12:30                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-28 13:22                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-28 14:29                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-28 14:49                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-28 15:31                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-28 16:51                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-30  2:26                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-30 13:29                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-30 18:52                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-30 20:32                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-30 20:43                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-01  2:19                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-12-01  6:02                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-01 15:08                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26  9:52                             ` João Távora
2022-11-26 12:29                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-26 19:23                                 ` João Távora
2022-11-27 16:09                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29  9:46                                     ` João Távora
2022-11-29 18:51                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-29 22:06                                         ` João Távora
2022-11-30  0:10                                           ` Dmitry Gutov

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8335a3p9xy.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=41572@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=arstoffel@gmail.com \
    --cc=cjpeople2013@gmail.com \
    --cc=dgutov@yandex.ru \
    --cc=eric@ericabrahamsen.net \
    --cc=joaotavora@gmail.com \
    --cc=juri@linkov.net \
    --cc=manuel.uberti@inventati.org \
    --cc=mardani29@yahoo.es \
    --cc=philipk@posteo.net \
    --cc=rudi@constantly.at \
    --cc=salutis@me.com \
    --cc=theo@thornhill.no \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.