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Re: [Monotone-devel] Has anyone written a monotone backd for Emacs's VC?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Has anyone written a monotone backd for Emacs's VC? |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:47:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I know VC is not very well suited to current revision control systems, but
>> some of its functionality does make sense and is convenient (typically: show
>> diffs made to the current buffer's file, indicate the revision control
>> system used for the current buffer's file in the mode line, provide access
>> to `annotate' and .... well, that's mostly it I think).
>>
>> Also, there are plans to update VC to be a bit friendlier by making VC-dired
>> work better.
>>
>> So, in any case, Emacs-22.2 will have VC backends for Git, Bazaar, and
>> Mercury, and it would make sense to add Monotone to the list.
>>
>> I might write it myself, but I'd first want to make sure nobody else has
>> done such a thing yet.
> I was planning to write a monotone backend for VC. I wrote most of the
> monotone backend for DVC and can probably reuse portions of that.
That would be great.
> When, roughly, will Emacs-22.2 be released?
No idea. Could be real-soon-now or it could be several months from now,
depending on how quickly people fix the list of pending bugs.
Stefan