From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ready to start serious work on VC mode again Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 20:11:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87prs5vqrm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20080428181932.5BD019F0434@snark.thyrsus.com> <854p9jpm2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080501080904.GB14751@thyrsus.com> <877ieeasc9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209665491 24167 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 18:11:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 20:12:07 2008 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 1JrdGH-0000Pb-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:12:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdFa-00038l-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdFW-00038g-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdFU-00038S-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdFU-00038P-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrdFT-0001M3-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so988621fge.30 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=d5mSWFkn3lFPa0+jL+J+k+zAIT1Bq1cRee6ZCrC9QI8=; b=Ls6ZFFq4t73MlIL79wRUDf0KuRR6M6kNnwJuqqwtDAChiktSGqUNdncbWj/BAeqjkKSnqbuIC7a3HVGuSsLKt3tvGHMSpdXsRj19oMXnJjjI0eYgSLFbIddna8VDxWd/O8B0sNH8r8w0O1BAoZgXwsC2BDfsv+kLsLAHRhIJeNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=A1mup/Jm6vYSjY5J7S9U292hS/zqLcl0lx4OahpmXfFC8dwLO+MwoN8bB05OfoHrOEU2/vfUlmj6zgGbfFYU0trlWMRuyWNhXZJo5oLiqqtxJq6gbRXx7xSUJBN66PDJTJ28gKNpx7R+mr0qcaDLe5dtguKsm6v9O6/rYKpvdrM= Original-Received: by 10.86.94.11 with SMTP id r11mr3556331fgb.0.1209665471956; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuT42 ( [82.242.132.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c28sm3695713fka.4.2008.05.01.11.11.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877ieeasc9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri\, 02 May 2008 01\:42\:46 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:96286 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > Multiple back ends is kind of a wacky edge case; > > I don't agree. Multiple back end workspaces are going to be quite > common *among the population of people who are likely to turn into > vc.el hackers*. DAK obviously uses them, I do, Barry Warsaw (Mailman > maintainer and Python release engineer) uses them on at least three > projects, and that's just a few folks I know. > > You want this feature to shine, I think. Does anybody have a clear idea about how VC should behave in such a situation ? Should it warn when opening a file because this file is under 2 or more vcs ? Should user be prompted at this point to choose which to use for next VC commands on this file ? Should user be able to save its preference for each file ? For each project ? -- Paul