bug#1017: marked as done (vc-diff for the hg backend ignore diff switches variables)

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Your message dated Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:45:49 -0500
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and subject line Re: bug#1017: vc-diff for the hg backend ignore diff switches 
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has caused the Emacs bug report #1017,
regarding vc-diff for the hg backend ignore diff switches variables
to be marked as done.

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> vc-diff for the hg backend ignore diff switches variables
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> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:57:24 +0200
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> Three related problems:
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> Apparently the hg backend of vc ignores both diff-switches and
> vc-diff-switches.
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> The vc-hg-diff-switches variables is not defined.
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> 3)
> The hg backend is special with respect to the vc-diff-switches
> variable.  Its doc says:
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>   A string or list of strings specifying switches for diff under VC.
>   When running diff under a given BACKEND, VC concatenates the values of
>   `diff-switches', `vc-diff-switches', and `vc-BACKEND-diff-switches' to
>   get the switches for that command.  Thus, `vc-diff-switches' should
>   contain switches that are specific to version control, but not
>   specific to any particular backend.
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> This behaviour assumes that the diff switches can be accumulated.
> however, it does not allow for removing them for a particular backend.
> For example, I have
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> (setq diff-switches "-pu"
>       vc-diff-switches "-b")
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> which works for the cvs and rcs backends.  However, it would not work
> for the hg backend, as 'hg diff' does not tolerate the -u option.  This
> problem would require a different way of combining the diff switches.
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> Re: bug#1017: vc-diff for the hg backend ignore diff switches variables
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> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:45:49 -0500
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> It seems no-one uses Mercurial, so I verified myself that this seems
> to work OK, and have installed it.
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