From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: vc in emacs problem with git Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87ws4p2cb8.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251441646 22140 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 06:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:40:46 +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 08:40:40 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 1Mgv8Z-0001R9-CK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgv8Y-00027v-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!13g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.9.53 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251438226 307 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2009 05:43:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 13g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.9.53; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172464 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:67609 Archived-At: On Aug 28, 2:10=A0am, Anselm Helbig 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 > > > =A0Wrong 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 !!