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28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, rudi <at> constantly.at, eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net, cjpeople2013 <at> gmail.com, theo <at> thornhill.no, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es, joaotavora <at> gmail.com, manuel.uberti <at> inventati.org, juri <at> linkov.net, salutis <at> me.com, arstoffel <at> gmail.com, 41572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:58:33 +0200

> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:41:59 +0200
> Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, rudi <at> constantly.at, eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net,
>  cjpeople2013 <at> gmail.com, theo <at> thornhill.no, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es,
>  joaotavora <at> gmail.com, manuel.uberti <at> inventati.org, juri <at> linkov.net,
>  salutis <at> me.com, arstoffel <at> gmail.com, 41572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 
> >      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 better
> > How about VC-backed project?
> 
> Is that different?

I don't know.  You asked for alternatives, and that is what I could think
of.

> I would say it might be worse: "VC-backed" sounds 
> like a project that must correspond to a VC repository (be "backed" by it).

It usually is, isn't it?

If it doesn't have to, then we should look for a different name ASAP, one
that doesn't include "VC" at all.

> 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.

If this type of project doesn't have to be "backed by a VCS", then what does
distinguish it from other types of projects?

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