Re: Emacs and CVS

[Sergei Organov]

Seb <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to CVS, but I do most of my work with Emacs, so would like
> keep using Emacs's VC.  I found pcl-cvs which seems to be a good
> alternative to vc-dired, providing access to CVS commands.  However, there
> are two issues I can't find help with in the manual:
>
> 1. By default, pcl-cvs shows only those files in the directory that need
> updating, or committing.  How to toggle to showing all files in the
> correponding module in the working directory.

pcl-cvs in general shows the results of the last operation you've
made. If it was cvs-update, then it shows the changed files. Use
cvs-status to see status of all the files, though in ~10 years of
programming using pcl-cvs, I never got a desire to use it. In fact it's
much more convenient that pcl-cvs usually doesn't show thousands of
files I don't care about.

> 2. I'd like to keep using vc's changelog features ('C-x v a') for doing
> the changelog entries, but the author and email info are lost (this
> doesn't happen with RCS):

Can't help with that. I personally use add-change-log-entry, and it does
work for me.

-- Sergei.