From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master de76a16: Performance improvements for vc-hg Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:21:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83io1zosv7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160208185311.9470.7389@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <56B8F682.7040404@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454962938 8844 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 20:22:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 20:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 21:22:17 2016 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 1aSsK7-0001HC-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsK7-0006PO-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsK3-0006PD-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsK0-0002Tn-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsK0-0002Tb-Al; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1698 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aSsJw-0007O6-0r; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:22:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <56B8F682.7040404@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:11:46 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199555 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Colascione > 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.