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Re: autorevert and vc
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: autorevert and vc |
Date: |
30 Mar 2004 14:56:42 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> It apparently does not seem to take that much CPU to update the
> VC-state (without reverting the buffer) every five seconds, whether it
> is needed or not.
Of course that depends on the revision control being used.
> The patch below takes out all original vc-code, as you suggested.
> Then it takes care of the problem that code was intended to fix by
> calling `vc-find-file-hook' unconditionally if the user requests that
> through a customizable variable. The default is nil, do not do this.
> If the user has a reasonably fast machine and worries about the
> problem, he sets it to t and forgets about it. If the user knows he
> never is going to be in that situation, he keeps it nil. Otherwise,
> he sets it to t whenever the need arises.
> Note that my patch works for all version control systems supported by
> VC (I checked it for RCS), whereas the original only worked for CVS.
> Does this look OK?
It looks fine to me.
To improve it we can add something like the following in vc-hooks.el:
(defun vc-stale-state-p (file)
(vc-call 'stale-state-p file))
(defun vc-default-stale-state-p (backend file)
t)
So you can then use `vc-stale-state-p' to check whether you need to call
vc-find-file-hook. The default is to always return t but backends can
override it with something more precise in case it's possible to determine
freshness more efficiently than doing the refresh.
Pleased check with Andre <address@hidden>, to see whether he has a better
idea about what functionality VC should provide.
Stefan
- autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/28
- Re: autorevert and vc, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/28
- Re: autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/28
- Re: autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/29
- Re: autorevert and vc,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/30
- Re: autorevert and vc, Andre Spiegel, 2004/03/30
- Re: autorevert and vc, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/30
- Re: autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/30
- Re: autorevert and vc, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/30
- Re: autorevert and vc, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/31