From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:16:44 +0200 Message-ID: <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186427864 7809 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2007 19:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Olson , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 06 21:17:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1II85A-0004fS-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1II858-0003Sv-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1II855-0003Sp-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1II851-0003SZ-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1II851-0003SW-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1II84g-000544-PY; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:17:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05CF1634EE; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:16:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEFE13ED57; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:16:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-070-185.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.70.185]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119B91D3167; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:16:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 40CB11C3C79D; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:16:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 06 Aug 2007 14\:38\:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3878/Mon Aug 6 18:24:41 2007 on mail-in-01.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76104 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> my Emacs Lisp add-on programs. If a file has been deleted at some >> point, it will interrupt the build to prompt me about whether to restore >> it -- this is a show-stopper. Also, even when building Emacs (as of a > > Actually I think this is a "feature" of VC which we should tame > significantly: basically, this only makes sense under RCS (and maybe SCCS) > but happens to be in the generic part of VC, so it can bite at any time when > used with other backends. The idea was that under RCS if a file is > absent but RCS/,v is present, than is virtually present, except > it needs to be checkout first. That does not even make sense in RCS for me. One locks files, but does not delete them. > vc-arch.el is already careful to define a > vc-arch-find-file-not-found-hook which overrides > vc-default-find-file-not-found-hook (and does nothing) and I think > most/all other systems would benefit from such a change. _Including_ RCS. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum