Comments on: Emacs hidden gems: Version Control

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:56:11 +0000

Don’t forget the ‘f’ binding in vc-annotate to visit the revision in question.

By: ndanger.organism :: blog :: Emacs & version control

ndanger.organism :: blog :: Emacs & version control — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:07:48 +0000

[...] does version control!. And if you’re tunneling your version control through SSH, you should probably set up those [...]

By: Robert Goldman

Robert Goldman — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:48:32 +0000

If you’re a subversion user, it’s not clear to me that version control is a good fit at all. In particular, the “next action” is simply not well-defined on a file-by-file basis. Most likely the true next action will be to commit a changeset that is a coherent set of changes to multiple files. Now, cvs can’t do that, so VC is an ok fit for it, but for svn, this seems like a Bad Thing.

By: core

core — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:00:32 +0000

Ceesaxp,

The build I used to write the article on is actually a CVS build from the branch EMACS_22_BASE, it is actually the only one which works/compiles nicely for Mac OS X Leopard. (http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/?root=emacs&pathrev=EMACS_22_BASE)

My 22.1.50.1 has the following supported backends:

C-h v vc-handled-backends RET

vc-handled-backends is a variable defined in `vc-hooks.el’.
Its value is
(RCS CVS SVN SCCS Arch MCVS)

By: Ceesaxp

Ceesaxp — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:22:17 +0000

I am running 23.0.1 on a Mac, but can’t see any mention of git or Hg:

23.8.1.2 Supported Version Control Systems
……………………………………

VC currently works with six different version control systems or “back
ends”: CVS, GNU Arch, RCS, Meta-CVS, Subversion, and SCCS.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:39:58 +0000

Thanks! I had heard about the reimplementation (at last–no more file-based VC) but hadn’t seen much by way of explaination. It does look like Info has been updated with the new system, which is cool. But an overview like this is always helpful.

One less thing to drop into the shell for; woot.

By: Lapsed emacsarian

Lapsed emacsarian — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:51:19 +0000

> There are only a couple of keybindings to remember
[followed by a list of six keybindings]

Story of the problem with Emacs, sigh…

But thanks for the heads up and the nice table/API summary.