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: 23.0.50; vc-diff needs CVS repository now Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071027090527.323938FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20071104174311.GB19187@thyrsus.com> <200711112054.lABKsTj0016411@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194904080 2981 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 21:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Glenn Morris , Nick Roberts , Emacs developers To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 22:48:03 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 1Irh8I-0002b7-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:47:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Irh86-0006Qy-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Irh82-0006QU-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Irh7y-0006Mc-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Irh7y-0006MA-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Irh7r-0000EJ-Sm; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5552CF433; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BA53FE1; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 776FA6CAB0; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200711112054.lABKsTj0016411@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:54:24 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:83089 Archived-At: > I adapted the old vc-diff-internal logic to vc-cvs-diff. After the > patch below the CVS repository is not needed if backup files are > present. Thanks. It might be a good occasion to fix a bug in VC: backup files should only be used this way if they refer to a precise revision number, but not if they refer to a tag or (worse) a branch, since tags and branches can change. Stefan