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Re: some vc-status updates
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: some vc-status updates |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:01:55 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dan> Probably not. But update needs a bit of work anyway: it does not work
Dan> for VCSes that only do whole repository updates at a time (hg, git).
> We can always error and tell the user that he has to do something
> else. Or, we could do a full tree update and just show a subset of
> what happens. I don't know which is best.
It would be wrong to update files outside of the subtree displayed in
the vc-status buffer. I.e. if the vc-status only displays a subtree and
the backend can only update a whole tree at a time, vc-status should
signal an error explaining it cannot perform the desired operation.
Stefan