Re: vc in emacs problem with git

[Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>]

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At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:43:46 -0700 (PDT),
rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 28, 2:10 am, Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig
> +news2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:44:33 +0530,
> >
> > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just updating my own question:
> > > when I do a C-x v v (vc-next-action)
> > > which is supposed to be the most basic operation for checking in a file I get
> >
> > >  Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> >
> > > So vc can be assumed to be a broken I guess?
> >
> > I had a similar problem. The cause was an old git.el I had lying
> > around. You should check if vc-git works when you turn off all
> > customization, i.e. with emacs -Q. Another possible source of old git
> > support files might be your OS. Debian and friends automatically
> > install git support for emacs along with the git package. Loading it
> > is disabled here for Emacs 23, though (Ubuntu Jaunty).
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Anselm
> >
> > --
> > Anselm Helbig
> > mailto:anselm.helbig+news2...@googlemail.com
> 
> Thanks! That tracked it --that is vc works with emacs -Q and fails
> without.
> But now how to track where the problem is?
> I can hardly use emacs with -Q !!

Well, try emacs -q (no .emacs loading) and emacs --no-site-file (no
loading of site-specific customizations). What does 

  M-x locate-library vc-git

give you?




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Anselm Helbig 
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