From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc with svn and git Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bmtrsdkl.fsf@kwork> <87innzqvfi.fsf@kwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487981549 26530 195.159.176.226 (25 Feb 2017 00:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:12:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs Development To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 25 01:12:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1chPyE-0005oW-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:12:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chPyK-0005gu-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chPxm-0005gl-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chPxj-0008IQ-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:41928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chPxi-0008Hs-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0DoCgCDyrBY/5/wSC1dGwEBAQMBAQEJAQEBg1BBigyFc5BsKQGXGIYcBAICgg9EFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohHEBBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSJfwixCos/AQEIAiaLO4o5BZBOi0ycX4Zcky02IYEBIRQILIcpIoseAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0DoCgCDyrBY/5/wSC1dGwEBAQMBAQEJAQEBg1BBigyFc5BsKQGXGIYcBAICgg9EFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohHEBBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSJfwixCos/AQEIAiaLO4o5BZBOi0ycX4Zcky02IYEBIRQILIcpIoseAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,202,1484024400"; d="scan'208";a="293734899" Original-Received: from 45-72-240-159.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([45.72.240.159]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2017 19:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5A89A64C57; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:11:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Copley's message of "Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:44:16 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212585 Archived-At: >> That's right. It's perfectly normal to have more than one backend >> covering the same files. >>> VC should ask what backend to use in case of ambiguity, >> That tends to be rather annoying, in my experience. > Hypothetically? No: I've used a setup with combined CVS+RCS setup for quite a while (hence `vc-switch-backend`), and tried the "prompt" route but even by making the prompt lazy (i.e. only prompt when you want to actually run a command) I found it too annoying (and making the prompt lazy is actually hard to do with the current system, I only experimented with it via big ugly hack). > Ah, thanks. Seems to work (for files, not directories). It predates vc-dir, but it shouldn't be difficult to make it work in vc-dir. Stefan