From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix in vc-ignore-dir-regexp Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4634F262.1010108@freedesktop.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177892426 18259 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 00:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Josh Triplett Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 02:20:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiJcr-0000Hm-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiJiz-0000Xo-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiJiv-0000Xj-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiJit-0000XW-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiJit-0000XT-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HiJck-00019R-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.145.115]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070430002013.MGYR1671.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 729308074; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4634F262.1010108@freedesktop.org> (Josh Triplett's message of "Sun\, 29 Apr 2007 12\:30\:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70382 Archived-At: > Smith wrote: >> Although I have not been bit by it yet, I might need to add in /gsa/ as well >> for the gsa file system. > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In the mean time I've added /.../ to the vc-ignored-dir regexp as suggested. >> I didn't add the /gsa/ one because I've never heard of the gsa filesystem >> and Google didn't seem to have heard of it either. > GSA doesn't represent a filesystem; it refers to IBM's "Global Storage > Architecture", which to the best of my knowledge only exists inside IBM. It > provides network-accessible storage for IBM employees, available via various > protocols, and generally kept on servers close to the employee's location in > network topology. IBMers often mount it on /gsa . Some use /gsa to refer to > the entire hierarchy, with paths like /gsa/server/path, and some use /gsa to > refer to their home server or home directory, with paths like /gsa/path; in > the latter case, VC *should* search /gsa. I don't think vc-ignored-dir should > include paths based on IBM-internal services and conventions, particularly > when those conventions vary. :) Thanks for that very clear explanation. Stefan