From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:47:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54B0CC33.2050100@dancol.org> <54BC60A8.6040401@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421682565 23476 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2015 15:49:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , Emacs developers To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 16:49:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEZw-0002by-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:49:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEZv-0004CC-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEZi-00043D-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEYb-0000el-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEYJ-0000PY-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEYI-0006XA-IP; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:47:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <54BC60A8.6040401@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:40:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181438 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 01/11/2015 09:02 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > >> that behavior is not what SVN/CVS users want... > > Could you elaborate on that? > From what I remember of working with SVN, there's not much difference > from the modern VC systems, and you usually want to see the status of > the whole repository. CVS does not work on the root level. Even in SVN, it's ok and desirable to just look at a subdirectory. vc-dir has used the current directory since the beginning, I haven't seen any request to change it until now, it doesn't seem like changing the default behavior after so many years when there were no requests to do it is a good idea just because someone sent a patch to change it. vc-hg displays the "Root" in the vc-dir header. The intention with that was to make it a button that would display vc-dir on the top level directory. All backends (especially vc-git) should implement that Root header and implement a button for it...