[Emacs-diffs] master 4893831 1/2: Update some documentation changes and todo items.

[Eric S. Raymond]

branch: master
commit 4893831f692993f625db0ad6b16200a379fc0138
Author: Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>
Commit: Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>

    Update some documentation changes and todo items.
---
 lisp/vc/vc-git.el |    2 --
 lisp/vc/vc-hg.el  |    2 --
 lisp/vc/vc-src.el |    1 -
 lisp/vc/vc.el     |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
index 0aceb55..805e488 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
 ;; STATE-CHANGING FUNCTIONS
 ;; * create-repo ()                                OK
 ;; * register (files &optional rev comment)        OK
-;; - init-revision (file)                          NOT NEEDED
 ;; - responsible-p (file)                          OK
 ;; - could-register (file)                         NOT NEEDED, DEFAULT IS GOOD
 ;; - receive-file (file rev)                       NOT NEEDED
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@
 ;; - retrieve-tag (dir name update)                OK
 ;; MISCELLANEOUS
 ;; - make-version-backups-p (file)                 NOT NEEDED
-;; - repository-hostname (dirname)                 NOT NEEDED
 ;; - previous-revision (file rev)                  OK
 ;; - next-revision (file rev)                      OK
 ;; - check-headers ()                              COULD BE SUPPORTED
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el b/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
index 9bb79a7..bc704e7 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
 ;; STATE-CHANGING FUNCTIONS
 ;; * register (files &optional rev comment)    OK
 ;; * create-repo ()                            OK
-;; - init-revision ()                          NOT NEEDED
 ;; - responsible-p (file)                      OK
 ;; - could-register (file)                     OK
 ;; - receive-file (file rev)                   ?? PROBABLY NOT NEEDED
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@
 ;; - retrieve-tag (dir name update)            OK FIXME UPDATE BUFFERS
 ;; MISCELLANEOUS
 ;; - make-version-backups-p (file)             ??
-;; - repository-hostname (dirname)             ??
 ;; - previous-revision (file rev)              OK
 ;; - next-revision (file rev)                  OK
 ;; - check-headers ()                          ??
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-src.el b/lisp/vc/vc-src.el
index 0462223..b780161 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-src.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-src.el
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@
 ;; - retrieve-tag (dir name update)            ??
 ;; MISCELLANEOUS
 ;; - make-version-backups-p (file)             ??
-;; - repository-hostname (dirname)             NOT NEEDED
 ;; - previous-revision (file rev)              ??
 ;; - next-revision (file rev)                  ??
 ;; - check-headers ()                          ??
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc.el b/lisp/vc/vc.el
index 6d45f7f..ffb6e5d 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc.el
@@ -601,13 +601,11 @@
 
 ;;; Todo:
 
-;; - Get rid of the "master file" terminology.
-
 ;; - Add key-binding for vc-delete-file.
 
 ;;;; New Primitives:
 ;;
-;; - deal with push/pull operations.
+;; - deal with push operations.
 ;;
 ;;;; Primitives that need changing:
 ;;
@@ -620,10 +618,16 @@
 ;;
 ;;;; Improved branch and tag handling:
 ;;
+;; - Make sure the *vc-dir* buffer is updated after merge-branch operations.
+;;
 ;; - add a generic mechanism for remembering the current branch names,
 ;;   display the branch name in the mode-line. Replace
 ;;   vc-cvs-sticky-tag with that.
 ;;
+;; - Add a primitives for switching to a branch (creating it if required.
+;;
+;; - Add the ability to list tags and branches.
+;;
 ;;;; Internal cleanups:
 ;;
 ;; - vc-expand-dirs should take a backend parameter and only look for
@@ -636,8 +640,34 @@
 ;;   (or nil if it worked synchronously).  Hopefully we can define the old
 ;;   4 operations in term of this one.
 ;;
+;;;; Unify two different versions of the amend capability
+;;
+;; - Some back ends (SCCS/RCS/SVN/SRC), have an amend capability that can
+;;   be invoked from log-view.
+;;
+;; - The git backend supports amending, but in a different
+;;   way (press `C-c C-e' in log-edit buffer, when making a new commit).
+;;
+;; - Second, `log-view-modify-change-comment' doesn't seem to support
+;;   modern backends at all because `log-view-extract-comment'
+;;   unconditionally calls `log-view-current-file'. This should be easy to
+;;   fix.
+;;
+;; - Third, doing message editing in log-view might be a natural way to go
+;;   about it, but editing any but the last commit (and even it, if it's
+;;   been pushed) is a dangerous operation in Git, which we shouldn't make
+;;   too easy for users to perform.
+;;
+;;   There should be a check that the given comment is not reachable
+;;   from any of the "remote" refs?
+;;
 ;;;; Other
 ;;
+;; - asynchronous checkin and commit, so you can keep working in other
+;;   buffers while the repo operation happens.
+;;
+;; - Direct support for stash/shelve.
+;;
 ;; - when a file is in `conflict' state, turn on smerge-mode.
 ;;
 ;; - figure out what to do with conflicts that are not caused by the
@@ -1154,7 +1184,7 @@ For old-style locking-based version control systems, like 
RCS:
            ;; state of each individual file in the fileset, it seems
            ;; simplest to just check if the file exists.        Bug#9781.
            (when (and (file-exists-p file) (not (file-writable-p file)))
-             ;; Make the file+buffer read-write.
+             ;; Make the file-buffer read-write.
              (unless (y-or-n-p (format "%s is edited but read-only; make it 
writable and continue? " file))
                (error "Aborted"))
              ;; Maybe we somehow lost permissions on the directory.