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bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emac
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:58:33 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:41:59 +0200
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rudi@constantly.at, eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
> cjpeople2013@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, mardani29@yahoo.es,
> joaotavora@gmail.com, manuel.uberti@inventati.org, juri@linkov.net,
> salutis@me.com, arstoffel@gmail.com, 41572@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> > A directory containing such a marker file or a file matching a marker
> > pattern will be recognized as the root of a project whose type is
> > "VC project".
>
> If you say quote help, it's fine by me.
>
> > The point of this is to tell that those markers indicate projects whose type
> > just happens to be "VC project". Otherwise the above could be interpreted
> > that the markers can be used only inside VC projects.
>
> Sure.
>
> >> Like the patch also says (and what's given me a pause in the past), that
> >> also makes "VC project" somewhat a misnomer. But I'm not sure what to
> >> call them better
> > How about VC-backed project?
>
> Is that different?
I don't know. You asked for alternatives, and that is what I could think
of.
> I would say it might be worse: "VC-backed" sounds
> like a project that must correspond to a VC repository (be "backed" by it).
It usually is, isn't it?
If it doesn't have to, then we should look for a different name ASAP, one
that doesn't include "VC" at all.
> OTOH a new term we could use would stand for something like: a project
> type which will recognize the enabled kinds of VC repositories and use
> their roots as project root, and knows how to use certain VC systems to
> speed up the fetching of files, and knows about Git submodules, but also
> recognizes other directories (inside or outside of VC repositories)
> based on configurable conditions.
If this type of project doesn't have to be "backed by a VCS", then what does
distinguish it from other types of projects?
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, (continued)
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/26
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/26
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/26
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/26
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/27
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/28
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/29
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/30
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/11/30
- bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/30