Subject: Re: bug#55632: [PATCH] Add new user option project-vc-find-tracked-only

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 11:00:07 +0000

On 29.05.2022 23:41, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 27.05.2022 16:55, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> On 25.05.2022 12:08, Jan Synáček wrote:
>>> Currently, `project-find-file' always includes untracked files, which 
>>> is
>>> not always the desired behavior. This patch adds a new user option to
>>> make only find the actual project files. By default, the variable is 
>>> set
>>> to nil, which means the behavior is not changed.
>> 
>> Sure, thanks. I'll review this soon-ish.
> 
> The patch seems functional, thanks. Should also get you better
> performance, if this is the behavior you prefer.
> 
> Regarding the naming and the docstring, though: unlike what the
> defcustom says, it will affect also 'project-find-regexp' (i.e. which
> files get searched by this command), and all other features that
> delegate to 'project-files' internally.
> 
> So the docstring could use some generalizing. And consider these two
> options for rename:
> 
>   - project-vc-tracked-only (defaulting to nil, like in the patch)
>   - project-vc-include-untracked (defaulting to t)
> 
> The docstring could say something like:
> 
>   When non-nil, the VC project backend includes the untracked files.

Thank you for the review. I addressed your comments in the new version 
of the patch.
From be368647783da8c12e2ea175401dd7f84d0cd4c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jan=20Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek?= <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 10:53:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add new user option project-vc-include-untracked

* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Projects): Document it.
* lisp/progmodes/project.el (project--vc-list-files): Use it.
---
 doc/emacs/maintaining.texi |  3 +++
 etc/NEWS                   |  4 ++++
 lisp/progmodes/project.el  | 16 +++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
index 3ddea0ae58..6f0da63837 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
@@ -1666,6 +1666,9 @@ Projects
   Which files do or don't belong to a project is also determined by
 the project back-end.  For example, the VC back-end doesn't consider
 ``ignored'' files (@pxref{VC Ignore}) to be part of the project.
+Also, some VC back-ends consider ``untracked'' files by default.
+That behavior is controllable with the variable
+@code{project-vc-include-untracked}.
 
 @menu
 * Project File Commands::   Commands for handling project files.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5987acdac9..b695d63020 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1693,6 +1693,10 @@ Enabling this minor mode turns on hiding header material, like
 'elide-head' does; disabling it shows the header.  The commands
 'elide-head' and 'elide-head-show' are now obsolete.
 
++++
+*** New user option 'project-vc-include-untracked'.
+When non-nil, the VC project backend includes the untracked files.
+
 ---
 ** The autoarg.el library is now marked obsolete.
 This library provides the 'autoarg-mode' and 'autoarg-kp-mode' minor
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/project.el b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
index 6c50135358..e488fa145e 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/project.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
@@ -382,6 +382,11 @@ project-vc-merge-submodules
   :package-version '(project . "0.2.0")
   :safe #'booleanp)
 
+(defcustom project-vc-include-untracked t
+  "When non-nil, the VC project backend includes the untracked files."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :safe #'booleanp)
+
 ;; FIXME: Using the current approach, major modes are supposed to set
 ;; this variable to a buffer-local value.  So we don't have access to
 ;; the "external roots" of language A from buffers of language B, which
@@ -512,8 +517,9 @@ project--vc-list-files
            (args '("-z"))
            (vc-git-use-literal-pathspecs nil)
            files)
-       ;; Include unregistered.
-       (setq args (append args '("-c" "-o" "--exclude-standard")))
+       (setq args (append args
+                          '("-c" "--exclude-standard")
+                          (when project-vc-include-untracked '("-o"))))
        (when extra-ignores
          (setq args (append args
                             (cons "--"
@@ -565,9 +571,9 @@ project--vc-list-files
        (delete-consecutive-dups files)))
     (`Hg
      (let ((default-directory (expand-file-name (file-name-as-directory dir)))
-           args)
-       ;; Include unregistered.
-       (setq args (nconc args '("-mcardu" "--no-status" "-0")))
+           (args (list (concat "-mcard" (when project-vc-include-untracked "u"))
+                       "--no-status"
+                       "-0")))
        (when extra-ignores
          (setq args (nconc args
                            (mapcan
-- 
2.36.1