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Re: some vc-status updates
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: some vc-status updates |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:28:45 -0800 |
Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> This adds a bunch of functionality to vc-status.
Thanks, I checked this in.
> * vc-diff does not work unless you have a file marked. Maybe
> vc-status-marked-files should return the current directory in this
> case?
Doing the same thing as vc-dired: diff the current files seems like the
most conservative version. I did this.
> Mostly this was an experiment, to see how easy it would be to turn
> vc-status into a pcvs replacement. It doesn't look super hard, I
> guess, though there is still a good amount to do. In particular:
>
> * Asynchronous operation
The backend status call needs to be done with vc-exec-after.
> * Updates. Can you do a full-directory update in VC?
Probably not. But update needs a bit of work anyway: it does not work
for VCSes that only do whole repository updates at a time (hg, git).
> * A new backend method for "ignore".
> * Saving buffers should probably update the vc-status buffer.
PCL-CVS does that. Can that code be "stolen"?