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Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:34:01 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Showing unregistred files, basically.
>
> If this feature is disconnected from Dired, I guess there is no need
> to implement that mode. It follows there is an advantage in staying
> with Dired: continuing to offer that mode.
The thing is that purely using a "VCS-centric" view of what files are
available is usually _much_ more efficient. The VCS usually can
efficiently tell you about an "interesting subset" (non-ignored) of
unregistered files, and I think that's enough -- there's no need to read
the filesystem directly.
[Indeed, reading the filesystem directly would both require a lot more
programming effort, and probably be much, much slower (remember that one
of the big problems with vc-dired historically is that it's so slow as
to be basically unusable for non-trivial projects).]
-Miles
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- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, (continued)
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/08
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Tom Tromey, 2008/01/06
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/06
- PCL-CVS buffers (was: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored), Reiner Steib, 2008/01/07
- Re: PCL-CVS buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/07
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/18
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Tom Tromey, 2008/01/18
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/18
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Tom Tromey, 2008/01/19
- Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/01/19