From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 19548@debbugs.gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com
Subject: bug#19548: VC changes under-documented, needlessly incompatible
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:37:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360u465fw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4cbd510d-80a3-276a-3d80-0a80c8e8143d@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 16 May 2016 02:37:33 +0300)
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 02:37:33 +0300
> Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
>
> On the other hand, vc-cvs-stay-local-p contains this bit of code:
>
> (let* ((sym (vc-make-backend-sym 'CVS 'stay-local))
> (stay-local (if (boundp sym) (symbol-value sym) vc-stay-local)))
>
> which seems like it will ensure that if the user has customized both
> vc-stay-local and vc-cvs-stay-local, the latter will win out (which
> won't necessarily happen if we just declare the former to be an obsolete
> alias of the latter).
>
> So it seems we're actually buying some extra compatibility here at the
> cost of some complexity. Do we care about the above detail?
I'm not sure I see the gain, given that (AFAIU) CVS is the only
back-end for which this option is relevant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-09 17:41 bug#19548: VC changes under-documented, needlessly incompatible Glenn Morris
2016-05-08 23:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-13 21:05 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-14 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-15 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-23 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-23 23:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-24 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-25 1:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-23 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 22:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
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