Re: git-handler.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:08:55 +0700
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>, Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>, 
>       Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> >> Not necessarily. It is today, but two months ago it could have resided
> >> in any of baz.el, quux.el or xyzzy.el.
> >
> > If you don't know its file, how will you find it?
> 
> By trial and error. Find the directory at revision, L1: choose the
> next most probable file, look in there. Repeat from L1 until found.

Then going to a directory @VERSION should be fine for your use case,
AFAIU.

> >> In the use case being discussed, I’m not interested in master. Or,
> >> more specifically, not in its current position, and not in the whole
> >> set of its commits that modify baz.el. I am interested in one specific
> >> commit, say ef7a18a071, that does not modify baz.el.
> >
> > Then you should look inside src/emacs/lisp@@/ef7a18a071, I think.  Why
> > is that a problem?
> 
> I got the impression that, in the proposed scheme, <path>@@<revision>
> only shows files under <path> that are modified by the commit
> <revision>. There is no problem for me if it shows *all* files under
> <path> that existed at that <revision>.

I think it's the latter (for a VCS where a version marks the entire
tree), but maybe I misunderstood what Michael meant.