From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: some vc-status updates
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:01:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtzlms52n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tzlmmocl.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:00:26 -0700")
Dan> Probably not. But update needs a bit of work anyway: it does not work
Dan> for VCSes that only do whole repository updates at a time (hg, git).
> We can always error and tell the user that he has to do something
> else. Or, we could do a full tree update and just show a subset of
> what happens. I don't know which is best.
It would be wrong to update files outside of the subtree displayed in
the vc-status buffer. I.e. if the vc-status only displays a subtree and
the backend can only update a whole tree at a time, vc-status should
signal an error explaining it cannot perform the desired operation.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 1:31 some vc-status updates Tom Tromey
2008-01-09 7:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-10 2:00 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-10 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-01-10 8:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-18 23:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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