Re: C-x v v no longer works the way it used to

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > 
  >   > "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
  >   > 
  >   >   > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
  >   >   > > This patch fixes it. 
  >   >   > > vc-next-action still has the logic to deal with unregistered files,
  >   >   > > but vc-deduce-fileset would not return one... 
  >   >   > > This patch is technically incorrect because it changes
  >   >   > > vc-deduce-fileset to not do what it's docs says it has to do.
  >   >   > > Not sure how the new VC design is supposed to work to fix it
  >   >   > > properly... 
  >   >   > 
  >   >   > You had the right general idea; the strategy has to go through 
  >   >   > vc-deduce-fileset in order not to break the design.  But your patch
  >   >   > produces behavior that won't be welcome in commands other than
  >   >   > vc-next-action, so I put the arm you added under control of 
  >   >   > a new boolean argument ALLOW-UNREGISTERED.
  >   > 
  >   > Now this points to another issue: 
  >   > vc-next-action does this:
  >   > 
  >   >       (mapc 'vc-register files))
  >   > 
  >   > But vc-register is defined like this:
  >   > 
  >   > (defun vc-register (&optional set-revision comment)
  >   > 
  >   > i.e. it does not have a file parameter, it works on the current
  >   > buffer.
  >   > 
  >   > The easy fix would probably be to change the mapc call to do a
  >   > with-current-buffer. But it might be better to change vc-register to
  >   > take a fileset parameter... 
  > 
  > 
  > Here's a patch that changes vc-register to take a file parameter. In the
  > end should take a fileset, but it seems better to first make sure that
  > the simpler case works.

I checked this in.

Making vc-register have a fileset parameter would probably have to wait
until there's a way to test that. Currently vc-dired does not show
non-registered files, so one can't select them to create a fileset.