Re: Testing the new VC code

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> > I agree with you, that the differences are noticeable only for CVS.
> 
> The purpose of the state-heuristic was to avoid contacting the remote
> repository when the user had not requested explicitly the operation
> (e.g. computing the file status for the mode-line), or the operation
> could be carried locally (e.g. "cvs diff <file>" which uses the
> CVS/Base/<file> copy).
> 
> I.e. not a question of performance, really, more one of making it work
> when disconnected.

Very well.  I think I can restore that behavior in those two back ends.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>