GNU bug report logs - #4599
23.1.50; VC (CVS) fails to show directory status

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 4599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#4599: 23.1.50; VC (CVS) fails to show directory status
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:22:49 -0700 (PDT)

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > > - Some operations, when done on a directory name in vc-dir fail; for
  > > example, I just pressed '+' when on a directory name (containing only
  > > 'need-update' files), and got the error "vc-cvs-merge-news: Couldn't
  > > analyze cvs update result". The *vc* buffer has normal CVS output at
  > > that point ("cvs update: Updating ." followed by a bunch of P lines);
  > > my guess it's that first line that confuses VC. Again, the operation
  > > does indeed succeed, so it's not a big deal.
  > 
  > Hmm... looks like vc-cvs-merge-news needs a lot of work,

And `vc-update' too, the fact that it loops through the files and
updates them one by one is not the best idea, it should probably
delegate this to a VC-backend specific function.
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