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: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:31:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87ws4p2cb8.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87tyzs2y4i.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 1251556855 23552 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2009 14:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 16:40:49 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 1MhP6j-0003q4-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44921 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhP6i-0000ag-Br for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.15.90 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251556281 18973 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2009 14:31:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.15.90; 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:172498 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:67640 Archived-At: On Aug 28, 1:18=A0pm, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Anselm Helbig writes: > > Hi! > > >> 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 !! > > > Well, try emacs -q (no .emacs loading) and emacs --no-site-file (no > > loading of site-specific customizations). What does > > > =A0 M-x locate-library vc-git > > > give you? > > And also check `M-x list-load-path-shadows' to find which external elisp > files shadow emacs builtins. > > Bye, > Tassilo Thanks Anselm & Tassilo The specific info from Anselm -- checkout vc-git.el -- helped me track the culprit. I had been trying it earlier; it neither worked and also evidently broke the working vc. When I renamed it out of the way the problem (seems) to have gone. But Tassilo's method is the way of tracking down such problems in the first place so thanks.