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Re: your vc-hg.el change
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: your vc-hg.el change |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:52:23 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
>> +2008-11-22 Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
>> +
>> + * vc-hg.el (vc-hg-program): New option.
>> + (vc-hg-state, vc-hg-working-revision, vc-hg-command):
>> + Use vc-hg-program rather than hard-coded "hg".
>>
>> Why was it done? Did any user request it?
>
> Yes.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00286.html
Norman Gray wrote:
> > Within vc-hg.el, the "hg" command is hard-wired as that precise
> > string, rather than being configurable. This is awkward for me at
> > least, since I organise myself so that tools (potentially in
> > multiple different versions) are kept out of /usr/local and similar,
> > and paged in and out via per-shell adjustments to PATH. But that
> > means that hg typically isn't on the default path that emacs picks
> > up.
This exotic setup is probably not a reason to change vc-hg, especially
when there is no equivalent in the other VC backends. Maybe OP can come
up with a different way to do what he wants (e.g., advising the VC
functions to swap in the correct path).
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Glenn Morris, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Glenn Morris, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Chong Yidong, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Glenn Morris, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, mail, 2008/11/24
- Re: your vc-hg.el change, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/11/25
Re: your vc-hg.el change, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/11/24