From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: vc in emacs problem with git Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:31:09 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87tyzs2y4i.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <87ws4p2cb8.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251445257 31307 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 07:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 09:40:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mgw4l-0008L6-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgw4l-0007UM-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de kQ0DjmXI1qhlhvAGpt1yqwyczMLqSQBkkPFLqKZcSkyyXNO3NQYJkgmB2e Cancel-Lock: sha1:d/l30pzfapzvu72XbKDfH+ZJGUM= In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: Anselm Helbig Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172467 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67611 Archived-At: At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:43:46 -0700 (PDT), rustom wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2:10 am, Anselm Helbig +news2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:44:33 +0530, > > > > Rustom Mody 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? -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com