Re: Redesigh of the VC front end

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   > 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.
> 
> That is already done right now.  Some backends choke when passed
> directories though (one that comes to mind is vc-cvs-diff).

Ah, that's good to know.  I know that SCCS and RCS don't do directory
arguments at all, and I believe that Subversion and everything after
handles them pretty well.  That leaves CVS as the place where support
is partial.  Do you know other CVS operations where it breaks?
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