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: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:10:03 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87ws4p2cb8.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251409399 18372 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 21:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:43:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 23:43:13 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 1MgmkR-0004lx-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgmkR-0001ju-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:43:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 7R73EJ8KA2EY3mXXunDTzQQ6JyeySxWRJYexyFeUw1qHxv/D2/U//Qo1Mm Cancel-Lock: sha1:eLJWk8RaAi0LbkOHWE1+rkKKtYw= In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: Anselm Helbig Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172457 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:67595 Archived-At: 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+news2009@googlemail.com