Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.06.2020 10:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > > Not as part of working on the current project.  Though I might decide
> > > to add some of them to the current project, as the need arises.
> >
> > I mean, do you visit them in the same Emacs session?
>
> I just answered that above.  This is all in a single Emacs session.

What I meant is, is there harm in modeling that kind of project as VC 
project with just lots of exceptions (additional ignores). Or is that 
just difficult.

> > OTOH, we already have a customization point that allows to exclude more
> > files than .gitignore does (the project-vc-ignores variable).
>
> I don't think exclusion alone is enough.  We need also a way of
> _including_ files in a project.

It's on my list. As long as we're talking about whitelisting files in 
the same directory tree.

But also see project-external-roots.

> > *And* one can use the project API to introduce a project backend that
> > does not rely on VC repositories.
>
> I think we should have commands to do so in the core.  It's too basic
> a capability for any IDE for us to leave it to add-ons.

Commands? Project backends are applied automatically in the current model.