Re: 23.0.60; new vc-status interface: no more multi-file commits?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden> writes:

  > With todays CVS build, it looks like there is a new interface for C-x
  > v d; in itself that is quite nice (especially since it also lists
  > removed files, which the previous system never did, at least not for a
  > CVS backend).
  > However, it looks like one main functionality is omitted from this,
  > namely the ability to commit files directly (i.e. the old v-v action
  > in VC-under-dired; not that big a deal for a CVS backend, but with
  > changeset-based systems like svn/git that would seem to be a serious
  > lack, not to mention that it directly contradicts the information in
  > NEWS).

C-x v v should work just fine.  If you mark multiple files it commits
all of them, if none are marked it commits the file on the current
line.  vc-dired did the same thing.
It does not have a shorter binding yet, or a menu entry.

  > As an aside, is there a way to cleanly abort a long-running background
  > status update? I briefly checked the behaviour of vc-status on a tree
  > with svn backend; it also seemed to lack the ability to commit changed
  > files. 

Can you please explain exactly what the problem was?

  > On top of that, the retrieving of the status info uses a
  > background process; in the case of the tree I was using (a gcc
  > checkout), that process is quite slow, and there did not seem to be an
  > obvious way to cancel it. C-g did nothing (since it's a background
  > process), and when it finished after I had killed the vc-status buffer
  > I received a 'selecting deleted buffer' error.

C-c C-c kills the update process (second to last menu entry).