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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master de76a16: Performance improvements for vc-hg
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:21:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83io1zosv7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B8F682.7040404@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:11:46 -0800)

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:11:46 -0800
> 
> > Having to go through the trouble of re-implementing part of the VCS to
> > parse the internal data to figure out the working revision, even though
> > we have no idea if the user will ever care, is deeply unsatisfactory.
> 
> I find the information useful, and we can now get it cheaply.

We are paying a non-trivial price as a project for that information,
see for example bug#21559.  Maybe it should be an option, off by
default?

> Users can easily remove vc-hg from vc-handled-backends if they don't
> want the functionality.

That's hardly user-friendly, IMO.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20160208185311.9470.7389@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1aSqvv-0002TM-Vt@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-02-08 19:55   ` [Emacs-diffs] master de76a16: Performance improvements for vc-hg Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 20:11     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-08 20:21       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-08 20:28         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-08 21:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 21:09             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-08 21:39           ` VC's modeline (was: [Emacs-diffs] master de76a16: Performance improvements for vc-hg) Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 22:02             ` VC's modeline Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-09 15:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-09 17:13                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10 15:16                   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-13 20:01                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-13  9:33                 ` Markus Triska
2016-02-08 23:29             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-13  9:35               ` Markus Triska

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