Re: VC and bzr.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I find the status indicator (the `:' or `-' chars that flags a file as
>> modified on disk or not) very helpful.
>
> They don't get updated unless you revert the buffer, or do all your VC
> ops from within Emacs.  So they lie to me quite a bit.

I do almost all VC ops from within Emacs, so they are fine. Although VC
doesn't cover all often-used ops for dVCS, packages like magit.el just
require a bit of customization for refresing the VC status after an
operation.

>> IMHO, it is wrong to cut down global VC features just because some
>> backend is slow.
>
> This has nothing to do with slowness, see my message for the details.

Unless I completely misunderstood, slowness is at the root of the issue,
but if you prefer turn my comment into "IMHO, it is wrong to cut down
global VC features just because some backend is broken"