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: VC top of the tree diff and log Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200907071845.n67IjHUH004088@godzilla.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 1247341902 9584 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 19:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:51:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 11 21:51:35 2009 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 1MPibd-0003e6-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:51:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPibc-000733-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPibY-00072y-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPibT-00072i-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56126 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPibT-00072f-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:29603 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPibS-0000sX-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:22 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtIEAMeJWEpFxIFI/2dsb2JhbACBUcpOhAkFhmSCSg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,384,1243828800"; d="scan'208";a="41401643" Original-Received: from 69-196-129-72.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.129.72]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 11 Jul 2009 15:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 06C3A7EF7; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:51:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200907071845.n67IjHUH004088@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:45:17 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:112352 Archived-At: > Currently the way to get a diff from the top of the tree is to: > C-x v d TOP_OF_THE_TREE_DIRECTORY RET > put the cursor on the ./ line > C-x v = I always have the vc-dir buffer open, so I only need the last 2 steps (move to ./ and hit C-x v =). I think it's a good way to work. > Key bindings: > for log we could have C-x v L (should be intuitive given that > vc-print-log uses C-x v l) It might be a good idea. Of course, others might argue that l-vs-L should be used for "brief-vs-verbose" log output or somesuch. > not sure what would be a good one for diff I don't understand: why not just use the capitalized = sign? > Older VCS don't have the top of the tree concept, not sure what to do > about those, but we can just ignore them for the time being. No need to worry about it, there are plenty of ways to make them behave sensibly. Stefan