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Re: vc-directory breakage
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: vc-directory breakage |
Date: |
Tue, 6 May 2008 04:21:12 -0400 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> I believe you have misunderstood the request, then: "support the multi-VCS
> case" means exactly what Dan asks, which is "make sure only one backend
> is used for a given command, even if the command includes files that are
> under various backends".
>
> I.e. the issue is not "several subdirs of *vc-dir* which each use
> a different backend", but "all the files under *vc-dir* are under the
> control of several backends at the same time".
I understood the second part. But your first paragraph leaves me
more confused than I was before.
It is already the case that "only one backend is used for a given
command, even if the command includes files that are under various
backends". If a fileset is not all owned by the same backend, a
consistency check in vc-deduce-fileset will fail. And C-u C-x v v
allows us to change the preferred backend for a set of files.
What I don't see is what any of this has to do with keeping a buffer-local
backend variable per directory, which is what Dan is saying he wants. By
hypothesis, backend is a per-*file* property. I don't see how trying to
cache it per directory can be a good idea.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Re: vc-directory breakage, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/05/05
- Re: vc-directory breakage, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/05/05
- Re: vc-directory breakage, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/05/05
- Re: vc-directory breakage, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/05
- Re: vc-directory breakage,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: vc-directory breakage, David Kastrup, 2008/05/06
- Re: vc-directory breakage, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/05/06
- Re: vc-directory breakage, Stefan Monnier, 2008/05/06
Re: vc-directory breakage, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/05/05
Re: vc-directory breakage, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/05/06
Re: vc-directory breakage, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/05/06
Re: vc-directory breakage, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/05/06
Re: vc-directory breakage, David Kastrup, 2008/05/06