Re: VC's modeline

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> What I think is wrong the level of detail expected in the status line.
> E.g. I think it'd be fine for VC to just display "Bzr" (or "Hg", or
> "Git", or what have you) instead.  I think it'd even be fine to do that
> without checking whether the file is really under that VCS's control or
> not (i.e. without checking whether the file is ignored).  IOW, a file
> opened in a directory with a ".git" somewhere in the parents could just
> say "Git", without any other check.

Saying that the file is on a directory that also has a .git (or .bzr, or
whatever) directory is almost meaningless. You don't know if the file is
actually versioned, nor if it is edited, nor the branch that is
currently checked out (this last piece of information is specially
important on workflows that uses colocated branches.)

Personally, I find having that information on the modeline a very worthy
investment. In practice, the only problem I experience is when working
on MS Windows, where calling git is much slower than on GNU/Linux and it
is annoying to wait until all buffers refreshes the VC info after some
operation with Magit.

If you wish to add a customization for disabling the modeline VC info
(all or part) I know that some users will appreciate the feature. But
reducing the information to a meaningless label is not a sane default.