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bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argumen
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:43:33 -0800 (PST) |
Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> Hallöchen!
>
> Dan Nicolaescu writes:
>
> > Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> >
> >> Dan Nicolaescu writes:
> >>
> >>> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> If I visit an unchanged file under bzr revision control,
> >>>> i.e. the modeline says "Bzr-" (NOT "Bzr:"), I can't use C-u C-x
> >>>> v =, i.e. vc-diff but with explicit revision parameters. The
> >>>> error message is:
> >>>>
> >>>> vc-bzr-previous-revision: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > This shows that (vc-working-revision
> >
"/home/bronger/src/chantal/current/chantal/samples/remote_client/la2chantal.py")
> >
> > returns nil. So probably for some reason
> > (vc-bzr-working-revision
> >
"/home/bronger/src/chantal/current/chantal/samples/remote_client/la2chantal.py")
> >
> > returns nil. Can you try to debug why that happens?
>
> I don't know Lisp, but I hooked into the bzr executable and can
> safely say that it isn't called for this action. So apparently,
> vc-bzr-working-revision tries to get the revno from the metadata in
> the .bzr/ directory. The branch format is "Bazaar Branch Format 7
> (needs bzr 1.6)".
Thanks, I checked in a fix for that.
> By the way, bug#618 is probably related to this. Formerly, I had
> missing revno in the modeline only in lightweight checkout, now I
> have the same problem with all branches. Maybe the branch metadata
> format has diverged too much for vc-bzr?
Is this still a problem now? If it is and you can describe how to get a
"lightweight checkout", it might be easy to fix.
If you want to look into this yourself, vc-bzr-working-revision is the
function that should get the version number.
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/02
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/02/02
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/02
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/02/02
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/03
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/04
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/02/04
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/04
- bug#2157: 23.0.90; bzr support: vc-diff doesn't work with prefix argument on unchanged files, Torsten Bronger, 2009/02/03