From: Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Speeding up vc-dired still more
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:55:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <914CCC23-1E02-4FC1-A400-F280B819A3D8@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228092526.GC23009@thyrsus.com>
On 28 Dec 2007, at 6:25 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>:
>> Perhaps `vc-dired-ignorable-p' should be a backend function
>> (vc-BACKEND-dired-ignorable-p). I'm thinking that the CVS backend
>> could
>> look at .cvsignore for the list of files to ignore, the SVN
>> backend at
>> .svnignore, and so on. This way, Emacs will ignore the same set
>> of files
>> as the VC backend would ignore when used in command line mode.
>
> It shouldn't *be* a new backend function, but it should probably
> *call*
> such a function.
This is what I intended to say too :-)
> The reason I say that is that there are some ignorable
> files that don't fit in the .svnignore/.cvsignore model.
>
> As an example, right now I have in there logic to ignore Makefile if
> it has a peer named Makefile.in or Makefile.am.
At least for the Emacs repository, .cvsignore lists Makefile so it is
ignored by CVS.
A `vc-cvs-dired-ignorable-p' implementation which looks only
at .cvsignore will ignore the Makefile with no extra logic.
>
> This is a good idea, but I have several higher-priority changes in my
> queue. Are you interested enough to do it?
I'm happy to make these changes, I will send you a patch for review.
>
Best Regards,
Alex.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-28 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-27 14:52 Speeding up vc-dired still more Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-27 19:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-27 21:25 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-28 9:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 2:53 ` Alexandru Harsanyi
2007-12-28 9:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 10:55 ` Alexandru Harsanyi [this message]
2007-12-28 12:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
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