From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC top of the tree diff and log
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:05:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo8wiytv2e.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907090029.n690Twlr026037@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:29:58 -0700 (PDT)")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> > Would be useful, though I dunno what you'd bind it too... at some point
> > having too many bindings for essentially-similar-commands becomes kind
> > of annoying/confusing.
>
> I am thinking that we could have 2 modes for the log:
> - a short one that would be used by default for directory logs
> - the current long one that would be used for file logs
> (I haven't completely thought this through)...
I normally am interested in exactly the same thing from either file or
project logs: detailed info about the last few changesets. I use short
logs too (when I'm trying to discover longer-term trends instead of
detailed info), but there seems no connection with whether I restrict
the scope to a file or not.
What sounds nice to me would be a quick "toggle log mode" binding in the
log display buffer (with caching so it's fast, and smart preservation of
point position in the log, etc), or maybe even better, a "toggle
detailed info for this entry" binding, but maybe those aren't so easy to
implement in emacs... [Hmm... "*" comes to mind for some reason, though
I have no idea why...]
As far as global vs. file logs, I think maybe I'd prefer to _always_ get
global logs in git/svn/... but with some slight hint about the file when
invoked from a file buffer -- e.g., maybe display entries not related to
the file in a "dim" face, and initially position the cursor on the first
modification to the file, etc. My reasoning is that I don't think I
really mean "show me the history of this file", when I use "C-x v l",
but rather "show me recent history of the project, given that I happen
to be in a file in that project". [Real file logs would be nice too,
when there's too much chaff, but they seem secondary, rather than
primary.]
[Incidentally, one thing that definitely _should_ work, but doesn't, is
that "C-x v l" in a dired buffer...]
I suppose maybe the real question underlying this thread is how much vc
should try to emulate historical CVS-oriented behavior when used with
newer source control systems that have different models. Personally I
think it should be a bit looser about this, and do what's "natural"
rather than what's "historically compatible". But maybe that's just
me...
-Miles
--
P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false,
for reasons of military security.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 18:45 VC top of the tree diff and log Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-08 2:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-08 21:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-08 23:01 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-09 0:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-09 3:05 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-07-09 3:58 ` C-x v l in a dired buffer [was: Re: VC top of the tree diff and log] Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-09 6:48 ` VC top of the tree diff and log Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-16 21:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-18 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-11 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-23 5:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 7:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 19:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 22:47 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 23:10 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-01 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-01 22:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-04 0:04 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-04 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 6:16 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-01 21:35 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-01 22:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-02 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-02 4:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-04 0:05 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-04 0:33 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-01 21:41 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-01 22:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-04 0:06 ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-06 22:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-04 0:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-04 3:42 ` Miles Bader
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