From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12001: 24.1.50; vc-diff always talks to CVS repository Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345515658 11522 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2012 02:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12001@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 04:20:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5M-0005UF-W4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:20:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5L-00026n-Fk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5I-00026g-TO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5G-0006rb-CT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5G-0006rW-90 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5W-0002S8-HI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12001 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12001-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12001.13455156509408 (code B ref 12001); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12001) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Aug 2012 02:20:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40684 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5H-0002Rd-45 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:53904) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e5E-0002RW-E9 for 12001@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3e4w-0000CZ-I1; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:20:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:25:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:63333 Archived-At: make-version-backups-p only returns non-nil for VCS that don't have the original version locally. > Indeed, vc-bzr-make-version-backups-p is not defined. > Should it be? No VCS other than CVS should need it. I am using bzr, and apparently bzr needs this, because vc-diff DOES NOT find the unmodified version except by connecting to the server. So either there is some other bug, or vc-bzr-make-version-backups-p ought to be defined. Or did I misunderstand something? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call