From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, ams@gnu.org, claus.klingberg@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:24:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4julbzs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk5eb4rdd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:51:10 +0300")
>> >> ;; As a heuristic, we stop looking up the hierarchy of
>> >> ;; directories as soon as we find a directory belonging
>> >> ;; to another user. This should save us from looking in
>> >> ;; things like /net and /afs. This assumes that all the
>> >> ;; files inside a project belong to the same user.
>> >> [...]
>>
>> > This assumption is only valid for Posix platforms...
>>
>> >> So in my case "c:/work/foo/bar/somefile" had a different owner than
>> >> "c:/work/foo/bar" so Emacs stopped looking for .git further upwards
--> no version control enabled.
>>
>> > ...as this case clearly shows. I think VC needs to limit this
>> > heuristic to Posix platforms only.
>>
>> I do not see where is the Posixness of my assumption (presumably
>> because Posix is basically all I know). Could you explain?
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but the text above sounds like it assumes
> that if /foo/bar/baz is owned by me, but /foo/bar is owned by someone
> other than myself, /foo cannot be reasonably owned by me.
I see. No it doesn't assume any such thing (this assumption is also
invalid under Posix). It only assumes that a given checkout of
a project is made of files entirely owned by a single user.
>> The assumption of my heuristic is that all the files in a given project
>> belong to the same user. Clearly there's nothing that guarantees it's
>> always true, but for "programming projects", it's probably true in
>> 99.9999% of the cases. If the "project" is a complete OS image OTOH,
>> it's not going to work.
> Well, in that case, perhaps you need to add an option to disable this
> heuristic, since if someone is unfortunate enough to be in the alleged
> 0.0001%, she will need a fire escape.
Might be. I'd still like to know how the OP ended up in this situation,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-16 9:17 vc-git bug with top-level repositories Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 14:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 16:24 ` Claus
2008-08-18 16:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 20:10 ` Claus
2008-08-18 20:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 11:01 ` Claus
2008-08-19 12:00 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 16:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 20:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-19 21:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-20 2:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-20 9:18 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-20 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-20 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <86bpzn4qw2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2008-08-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-20 22:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:17 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-29 0:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-29 14:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-08-27 21:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <1219912261.8925.63.camel@ubuntu804desktop.localdomain>
[not found] ` <jwvd4jt87g0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-28 19:19 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 20:12 ` Claus
2008-10-25 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-27 12:43 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 14:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-29 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-19 20:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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