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31.0.50; Multiple working trees support for VC

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Message #112 received at 79024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, 79024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79024: 31.0.50; Multiple working trees support for VC
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:20:07 +0100

Hello,

On Tue 29 Jul 2025 at 05:16am +03, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> As for Mercurial, maybe it's not that important to prioritize given Git's
> prevalence. But it could also have a halfway implementation - like scanning
> the parent directory of the current worktree for siblings (might not be great
> for large lists of worktrees, or more complex sets of worktrees), or reading
> the contents of some special file somewhere that would have to be written to
> manually (backend methods in vc-hg could also write to it, I suppose).

These are interesting suggestions, thanks.  We can see how people do
with what's implemented now and potentially add these.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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