From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 737@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date"
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:44:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbpuhg380.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901071935.n07JZ10o008592@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:35:01 -0800 (PST)")
>> Actually, the stay-local feature in CVS is (for me) not so much to work
>> offline (since CVS is not really usable in that circumstance), but so
>> that M-x vc-dir RET doesn't take ages to give me a buffer. I very often
>> want to have a *vc-dir* buffer to see which files I've modified, then
>> either open them, or get a diff of the changes I made, ... all those
>> operations can be made in much less time than it takes for "cvs
>> update -n" (or "cvs status") to finish.
> Wow, this answer is a blast from the past...
Yes, I was going through some forgotten old emails.
> You can get the above by setting a variable, doing it by default for CVS
> does not seem like a good idea.
Good, thanks.
>> Yes, it's too bad that vc-dir is still lacking such features at
>> this point. Not enough contributors, it seems.
> You are giving vc-dir too much credit here, in itself it's nothing more
> than a pretty printer and a GUI that can return multiple selections.
> What's missing is the mechanism to do these things in VC. Once VC has
> support for vc-pull, adding such support to vc-dir should be easy.
I guess you're right, but I don't see VC and vc-dir as so separate.
Especially not for vc-pull since it would (most likely) only/mostly be
available through vc-dir.
> Maybe you want to make some public statement saying that VC is in good
> shape now, and that contributions to improve it are welcome and very
> much wanted...
Of course, now that we're in feature freeze, it's kind of ill-timed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-17 21:12 bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date" Bob Rogers
2008-10-03 1:46 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-03 5:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-03 7:07 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-03 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-04 5:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 0:44 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 1:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 1:27 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 1:45 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 2:01 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 15:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 23:47 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-05 2:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-05 2:10 ` Nick Roberts
2008-10-05 23:43 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-06 0:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-06 6:26 ` Nick Roberts
2008-10-06 7:33 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-06 7:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-06 9:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-10-08 7:43 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-09 4:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-10 1:39 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-07 5:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-07 19:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-08 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-05 2:17 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-07 5:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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