From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get a list of changed files with VC?
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:12:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3a14dba-6bc5-3a6b-7699-dd15dd5a3205@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pod1egee.fsf@gnu.org>
On 7/15/17 8:52 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Maybe we should extend dir-status-files to accept a version, or even a
> range of versions.
I have no concrete opinion on this, except that the result might be
pushing it, complexity-wise. Let's maybe wait until we see more requests
for exactly this functionality.
>> Maybe calling the VC backend diff command on the whole repo and
>> parsing the output could work.
>
> I think Git is the odd one out providing this information as a
> side-effect of a diff command (with a option that makes little sense
> for a diff command). All the other back-ends I know of provide the
> info as part of the status command. I think.
Not sure which information you mean. I only suggested diff because one
call pass a reference revision to it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-16 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-13 1:23 How to get a list of changed files with VC? Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-15 17:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-15 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-16 17:12 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2017-07-16 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-16 17:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-16 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-16 17:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-19 0:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
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