Re: VC acting strangely

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>>> `vc-revert-buffer' seem to have been renamed to `vc-revert' in vc.el
>>> version 1.434
>>> ldefs-boot.el needs to be updated...
>>>   
>>
>> As a user command, I'd say it needs renaming back, or at least an alias
>> defined for it.
>
> Agreed.

Actually, I think it needs to get renamed back.  There are vc-*
subsystems maintained outside of Emacs, and those will stop working
when their hook functions get called under a different name.

As an example, there is vc-git.el.  It is also distributed in git's
contrib directory for the sake of users of older Emacsen and XEmacs,
and keeping it compatible would become more of a nuisance.  Basically,
it would necessitate putting an alias into vc-git.el as well as
upstream vc.

Unless there is a really pressing reason to keep the renamed function,
I think we should really revert here.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum