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bug#4137: 23.1.50; vc-dir waits instead of error message
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#4137: 23.1.50; vc-dir waits instead of error message |
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Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:17:54 -0500 |
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> >> I tried doing vc-dir without having entered my passphrase to enable
> >> subjobs of Emacs to contact savannah. So CVS would have failed.
> >> But vc-dir gave no sign of this. It created the buffer in the initial
> >> state, and never said or did anything more.
> > I'm not sure I understand this bug report. Was Emacs supposed to prompt
> > for a password here? (I think I've repressed how CVS worked with
> > remote, password-protected repositories...)
I am sorry my scenario was not clear.
Normally, VC commands fail when I have not previously specified my ssh
passphrase so CVS can contact savannah. Emacs does not know how
to promptfor the passphrase on their behalf.
So normally I specify the passphrase in advance with ssh-add.
That time I forgot to run ssh-add, so the basic vc commands should
have failed.
But vc-dir didn't report a failure. Instead it created the buffer
with no failure report, and then the buffer was nonresponsive to
commands.
The bug is that vc-dir did not fail when it should have failed.
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