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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project |
Date: | Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:41:59 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 |
On 27/11/22 18:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:51:45 +0200 Cc:philipk@posteo.net,rudi@constantly.at,eric@ericabrahamsen.net, cjpeople2013@gmail.com,theo@thornhill.no,mardani29@yahoo.es, joaotavora@gmail.com,manuel.uberti@inventati.org,juri@linkov.net, salutis@me.com,arstoffel@gmail.com,41572@debbugs.gnu.org From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru> On 27/11/22 16:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:(Btw, why "VC project"? can't I use marker files for non-VC projects?)Yes, you can. That's what the docstring says: "can also be used for projects outside of VC repositories". But "VC project" is a proper noun in this usage. Basically, a "VC project" is whatever value (if non-nil) that is returned by project-try-vc.Then maybe change that to something like A directory containing such a marker file or a file matching a marker pattern will be recognized as the root of a project whose type is "VC project".
If you say quote help, it's fine by me.
The point of this is to tell that those markers indicate projects whose type just happens to be "VC project". Otherwise the above could be interpreted that the markers can be used only inside VC projects.
Sure.
Like the patch also says (and what's given me a pause in the past), that also makes "VC project" somewhat a misnomer. But I'm not sure what to call them betterHow about VC-backed project?
Is that different? I would say it might be worse: "VC-backed" sounds like a project that must correspond to a VC repository (be "backed" by it).
OTOH a new term we could use would stand for something like: a project type which will recognize the enabled kinds of VC repositories and use their roots as project root, and knows how to use certain VC systems to speed up the fetching of files, and knows about Git submodules, but also recognizes other directories (inside or outside of VC repositories) based on configurable conditions.
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