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 Dired Mode doesn't support recursive directory? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200801301559.m0UFxAWt014439@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801301800.m0UI02L2000460@sallyv1.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 1201722194 20418 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2008 19:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: William Xu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 30 20:43:34 2008 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 1JKIq9-0004T0-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:43:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKIpi-0004m2-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKIpB-0004Tq-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKIp9-0004Sc-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKIp9-0004SX-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKIp8-00018U-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:18 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CANdhoEfO+J95dGdsb2JhbACQJgEwn3uBAg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,279,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="13414760" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 14:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.159.121]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id KUU38217; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EDA0F7FBC; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200801301800.m0UI02L2000460@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:59:56 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: 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:87792 Archived-At: >> >> 1. M-x vc-directory gives me a list of changed files in current >> >> directory and one sub directory. >> >> >> >> 2. I marked all files, then `v v', it prompts this in the minibuffer: >> >> >> >> ,---- >> >> | All members of a fileset must be under the same version-control system. >> >> `---- >> >> > Were some of the files that you selected unregistered? If yes, then the >> > error you get is expected (although the wording could be improved to >> > make it more clear). >> >> BTW, I think there's a fundamental error in VC's handling of backends, >> right now: The backend should be a buffer-local property, not >> a file-local property. > So what happens with files that are not in any buffer (like probably a > lot of files that would appear in vc-dired)? Huh? If they're in vc-dired, they're in a buffer. That's the whole point: it ensures trivially that all the files selected in a vc-dired are treated by the same backend. Stefan