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Re: Re: Heads up, VC front end about to undergo major surgery
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Re: Heads up, VC front end about to undergo major surgery |
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Wed, 7 May 2008 21:33:11 -0400 |
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Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> Can you please expand on what will change? Directories are passed to VC
> operations right now (and you can mark/unmark them in the UI too)
I'm going to get rid of as much as possible of the wacky
special-casing in vc-deduce-fileset (eliminating, if possible, the
present one required and three optional args). As I previously noted,
it has 6 messy rules for how to compute a selection set. I aim to
reduce that to 3. It is not impossible that I might get it down to 2.
One user-visible difference is that there will be no more *implicit*
selection of directories in the case that no fileset is available.
I think the UI of at least one capability, vc-diff, will change
significantly. The present interface to it is a kluge forced on us by
our previous inability to select directories.
> If anything goes wrong with the git backend, please contact the
> maintainer. He might already have fixes.
I'm not using git for anything yet. Thus, if anything goes wrong with the
git backend, he is almost certain to notice it before I do.
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