Re: Redesigh of the VC front end

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> vc-dir has "." too, but it's not shown by default (one needs to set
> vc-dir-show-directories to get it) because various VC operations don't
> do too well when passed directories... When that is fixed, we can show
> it by default.

That's what I'm working towards.  That is, vc-dir-show-directories always
on and simply passing the directory args down to the back ends.

>   > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo".
> 
> There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. 
> Can we please have an answer to for the above question?

There sure is a difference.  They might be the same if "." is the 
top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise.  

The iron law of Finagle guarantees that if we wire in the assumption
that the selection context defined by the top-level directory is the
same as the blank or global context, some back end will immediately
violate that...
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>