From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customizing the VC backend order Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:24:19 +0900 Message-ID: <87lkck585o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186719093 26583 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2007 04:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 06:11:29 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 1IJLqS-0001BH-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:11:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJLqS-0001wL-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJLqN-0001uG-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJLqL-0001rI-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJLqL-0001r9-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJLqK-00035g-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4473A7FFC; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:11:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 225271A2A0E; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:24:20 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070621) XEmacs Lucid X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76306 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Hmm... that's interesting to know (I'm considering changing the way the > search is done, which would naturally tend to give precedence to backends > whose admin dir is closest, so CVS would then tend to unavoidably take > precedence since it's always as close as any other). This is very bad IMO, as if multiple systems are in use, CVS is almost always a legacy distribution system. Also, what about the RCS use-case where the ,v file is a sibling of the controlled file? That's even closer, and even worse! While I see the logic behind your suggestion, I think what should be done is to ask the user. For one thing, I can see a use case where you are maintaining a variant version of an external library as a subdirectory of your project. In that case, your changes should normally be managed by the higher level SCM, and the local SCM will be pull-from-upstream only, until your patches get accepted.