From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-dir and Bazaar
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd84yhql.fsf@escher.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83tynp83z6.fsf@gnu.org
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:21:49 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:56:56 +0200
>>
>> > IOW, before you can meaningfully use vc-dir, you need to do something
>> > worthy of it ;-) E.g., modify some file.
>>
>> Ok. So, since my Emacs trunk tree is a mirror of the Savannah trunk and
>> I only update it, I can't use vc-dir to do this. Moreover, I can't use
>> it to merge the updated files from the trunk to my quickfixes branch.
>
> Right. That's what the "merge-news is not implemented part" is about.
Why "merge-news" instead of simply "merge"? Is there a difference? The
former term sounds strange and is confusing in a UI error message.
>> But once I have merged them from the command line, I can see them vc-dir
>> (I just did this and do see them). So now I should be able to commit
>> the merged files, right?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I type `M' to mark all the files, then `v', then a log buffer pops,
>> I write "Merge from trunk", type `C-c C-c' and get:
>>
>> "bzr: ERROR: Selected-file commit of merges is not supported yet: files
>> ChangeLog, configure, configure.in, lisp/ChangeLog, lisp/play/tetris.el,
>> lisp/progmodes/ps-mode.el, src/ChangeLog, src/alloc.c, src/font.c,
>> src/frame.c, src/ralloc.c, src/w32menu.c"
>>
>> Does that mean I can only commit single files?
>
> Yes, but more importantly, you can commit _all_ of the pending merges
> if you just don't mark any files. That's what you should do most of
> the time anyway, this being a changeset-based VCS, right?
Ah, thanks, I somehow overlooked this in the doc string. That did what
I wanted; but after it executed, I got this message:
"vc-do-command: Running bzr status admin/nt/makedist.bat...FAILED
(status 3)" and the *vc-dir* buffer showed all the files as uncommitted
that it displayed before I had type `v'. But when I refreshed the
buffer, it showed only the directories. And when I tried to commit the
merged files from the command line, it said there were no changes to
commit. So `v' worked in vc-dir despite the error message and the
non-updated display. Should I report a bug about that?
>> I think the manual should document these limitations.
>
> The manual doesn't like to mention limitations of a temporary nature,
> because they are expected to be solved in some future release. The
> manual only mentions limitations that cannot be lifted at all or
> without a major programming effort.
That's reasonable; yet reading that VC supports Bazaar does lead one to
expect full support...
Thanks for the feedback.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-24 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 12:03 vc-dir and Bazaar Stephen Berman
2010-07-23 21:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-23 21:45 ` Stephen Berman
2010-07-24 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-24 11:56 ` Stephen Berman
2010-07-24 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-24 16:20 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2010-07-24 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-29 13:33 ` Stephen Berman
2010-07-24 15:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
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