GNU bug report logs - #25710
25.1.91; vc-retrieve-tag does not offer branch namd completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:13:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 25.1.91

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>, 25710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25710: Acknowledgement (25.1.91; vc-retrieve-tag does not offer branch namd completion)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:35:33 -0700

>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

>> Another idea would be to add a defcustom for this.

Dmitry> I don't imagine having tags in there would really hurt, even if we
Dmitry> don't pick them. IME tags usually follow a particular naming
Dmitry> convention, so they won't interfere with completion.

Emacs itself has 144 tags, while I have about 16 branches.
So for me at least, for this project, that's 90% clutter and 10% things
I might actually want to complete.

For my gdb checkout I have 32 branches and there are 636 tags, so the
ratio is even worse there -- about 5% useful things.

Tom
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