GNU bug report logs - #4677
allow VC operations from dired

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Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:30:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 4677 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 4677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4677: allow VC operations from dired
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:21:07 -0700 (PDT)

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

  > >   > > This patch allows VC operations to be run from dired.
  > >   > > State changing VC operations are not supported.
  > >   > > (only the various variations of log and diff)
  > >   >
  > >   > Thanks, it works right except in one case: when called outside of
  > >   > a repository controlled directory, it traverses all subdirectories
  > >   > trying to find a repository (I think traversing subdirectories
  > >   > makes no sense in this case) and later fails with:
  > >   >
  > >   >   Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
  > >
  > > Thanks.  Here's an updated patch.
  > 
  > Hmm, now it fails with "Directory not under VC" in all directories
  > even under version control since (vc-backend default-directory)
  > always returns nil.

The version that uses vc-responsible-backend should work correctly now
(i.e. it will throw an error) when used in a non VC controlled directory.
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