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 backend precedence question Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:16:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185283034 23980 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2007 13:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 15:17:11 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 1IDKGA-0007Yl-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:17:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDKGA-00065Z-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDKG7-00065K-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDKG5-000658-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDKG5-000655-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDKG4-0003eb-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.195.145]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070724131700.DFIR1592.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 14F318187; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (dhruva's message of "Tue\, 24 Jul 2007 16\:15\:14 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:75453 Archived-At: > I tried reordering the list "vc-handled-backends" as: > (setq vc-handled-backends (nconc '(HG) (delq 'HG vc-handled-backends))) I'd use `append' to avoid odd corner cases (e.g. if you load your .emacs several times). But other than that, it should work. > It did not work. Any help would be really appreciated. I have this > rather strange setup as I checkout from CVS and use Mercurial to track > all my changes (as a mercurial queue). It's a bit unusual, but nowhere near strange. It's one of the most common ways to track an external CVS branch in a local branch (using either Mercurial, Arch, Monotone, Git, ...). Stefan