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bug#4599: 23.1.50; VC (CVS) fails to show directory status
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4599: 23.1.50; VC (CVS) fails to show directory status |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:22:49 -0700 (PDT) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > - Some operations, when done on a directory name in vc-dir fail; for
> > example, I just pressed '+' when on a directory name (containing only
> > 'need-update' files), and got the error "vc-cvs-merge-news: Couldn't
> > analyze cvs update result". The *vc* buffer has normal CVS output at
> > that point ("cvs update: Updating ." followed by a bunch of P lines);
> > my guess it's that first line that confuses VC. Again, the operation
> > does indeed succeed, so it's not a big deal.
>
> Hmm... looks like vc-cvs-merge-news needs a lot of work,
And `vc-update' too, the fact that it loops through the files and
updates them one by one is not the best idea, it should probably
delegate this to a VC-backend specific function.