From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to get a list of changed files with VC? Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:52:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83pod1egee.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgntdt9f.fsf@drachen> <0571a5da-53a5-7b26-fd8e-c3981d7d154c@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500141190 28108 195.159.176.226 (15 Jul 2017 17:53:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 15 19:53:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFY-0006wq-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:53:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFe-0001At-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFS-00019W-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFN-0005Ub-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFN-0005UW-5S; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2146 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dWRFM-0005FK-IH; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:52:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <0571a5da-53a5-7b26-fd8e-c3981d7d154c@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:41:29 +0300) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216697 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:41:29 +0300 > > On 7/13/17 4:23 AM, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > > More specific questions about my implementation: > > > > 1. The implementation of the first function > > `el-search--changed-files-in-repo' is currently git-specific, but I > > didn't find a way to implement it with functions that VC defines to make > > it work for other version control systems. Any idea? > > For the changed files relative to HEAD, you can call the backend command > (with vc-call-backend) named dir-status-files. But there is no way to > specify the reference revision. Maybe we should extend dir-status-files to accept a version, or even a range of versions. > Maybe calling the VC backend diff command on the whole repo and > parsing the output could work. I think Git is the odd one out providing this information as a side-effect of a diff command (with a option that makes little sense for a diff command). All the other back-ends I know of provide the info as part of the status command. I think.