set it up and don't erase it. Updated doc string to reflect that.
(vc-version-diff): When doing a single file diff, don't switch to the
*vc-diff* buffer before the command. This is to preserve local variable
bindings that might affect the diff command.
(vc-print-log): Don't switch to the *vc* buffer before the command, so
that local variable bindings are preserved.
use vc-make-version-backup to actually make the backup.
(vc-version-other-window, vc-version-backup-file): Handle both
automatic and manual backups.
(vc-revert-file): Use vc-delete-automatic-version-backups to get rid
of all of them.
(vc-checkout, vc-finish-steal, vc-checkin, vc-revert-file):
Update call to with-vc-properties accordingly.
(vc-comment-search-reverse, vc-comment-search-forward): Docstring fix.
(vc-revert-buffer): Be more careful about window selection and deletion.
(vc-switch-backend): Slight reorg to avoid calling `registered' twice.
(vc-version-backup-file): New function.
(vc-checkout): Create a version backup if necessary.
(vc-checkin): If a version backup file exists, delete it.
(vc-version-diff): Diff locally using version backups, if available.
(vc-revert-file): If there's a version backup, revert locally.
(vc-transfer-file): Use version backup for base version, if
available. If not, ask for confirmation whether to get it from the
server. Update mode line before check-in.
list. Handle multiple backends correctly.
(vc-find-new-backend): Function removed.
(vc-register): Use vc-responsible-backend, as before.
(vc-next-action-on-file): Do use vc-registered, not vc-backend.
Use vc-backend rather than vc-registered.
(vc-next-action-on-file): Use intern-soft.
Deal with read-only *vc-diff* buffer.
(vc-switch-backend): Short circuit if nothing is to be done.
Handle the case where (not (memq backend backends)).
Don't use vc-resynch-buffer which could lose unsaved editing.
(vc-transfer-file): Docstring fix.
(edit-vc-file, vc-next-action-on-file): Don't use find-file.
(vc-find-new-backend): New function split from vc-responsible-backend.
(vc-register): Use it.
(vc-responsible-backend): Remove REGISTER arg and add BACKENDS arg.
(vc-unregister): Drop BACKEND arg (it doesn't work anyway).
(vc-default-unregister, vc-revert-buffer): Docstring fix.
(vc-clear-headers): Don't use find-file.
(vc-revert-buffer): Use `and' again (must have been a braino).
(vc-switch-backend): Only prompt if requested.
(vc-default-receive-file): Update call to vc-unregister.
* vc-rcs.el (vc-rcs-unregister): Keep a backup of the master file.
(vc-rcs-receive-file): Avoid with-vc-properties.
Update call to vc-unregister.
Use constant `RCS' rather than (dynamically bound) var `backend'.
(vc-start-entry): New argument initial-contents. Don't visit the file
if it isn't already visited. Brought documentation up-to-date.
(vc-next-action, vc-register): Updated calls to vc-start-entry.
(vc-checkin): New optional arg initial-contents, which is passed to
vc-start-entry.
(vc-finish-logentry): Make sure to bury log buffer only if there
really is one. Call `vc-resynch-buffer' on log-file, not
buffer-file-name.
(vc-default-comment-history, vc-default-wash-log): New functions.
(vc-index-of): Removed.
(vc-transfer-file): Make do without the above.
(vc-default-receive-file): Call comment-history unconditionally. Pass
the resulting string to vc-checkin, instead of inserting it into the
comment ring.
* vc.el: (toplevel): Don't require `dired' at run-time.
(vc-dired-resynch-file): Remove autoload cookie.
2000-09-05 Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>
* vc.el: Made several backend functions optional.
(vc-default-responsible-p): New function.
(vc-merge): Use RET for first version to trigger merge-news, not
prefix arg.
(vc-annotate): Handle backends that do not support annotation.
(vc-default-merge-news): Removed. The existence of a merge-news
implementation is now checked on caller sites.
* vc-hooks.el (vc-default-mode-line-string): Removed CVS special
case.
* vc-cvs.el (vc-cvs-mode-line-string): New function, handles the
special case that has been removed from the default in vc-hooks.el.
2000-09-05 Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
* vc.el (vc-log-edit): Properly handle the case where FILE is nil.
2000-09-05 Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>
* vc-hooks.el: Require vc during compilation.
(vc-file-setprop): Use `vc-touched-properties' if bound by the new
macro `with-vc-properties' in vc.el.
(vc-file-getprop): Doc fix.
(vc-after-save): Call `vc-dired-resynch-file' only if vc is loaded.
* vc.el: Require dired-aux during compilation.
(vc-name-assoc-file): Moved to vc-sccs.el.
(with-vc-properties): New macro.
(vc-checkin, vc-checkout, vc-revert, vc-cancel-version,
vc-finish-steal): Use it.
(vc-cancel-version): Moved RCS-specific code to vc-rcs.el. The call
to the backend-specific function is now supposed to do the checkout,
too.
(vc-log-edit): Handle FILE being nil and added a FIXME for log-edit.
* vc-cvs.el (vc-cvs-checkin, vc-cvs-checkout): Don't bother to
set file properties; that gets done in the generic code now.
* vc-rcs.el (vc-rcs-uncheck): Renamed to `vc-rcs-cancel-version'.
Changed parameter list, added code from vc.el that does the
checkout, possibly with a double-take.
* vc-sccs.el (vc-sccs-name-assoc-file): Moved here from vc.el.
(vc-sccs-add-triple, vc-sccs-rename-file, vc-sccs-lookup-triple): Use
the above under the new name.
(vc-sccs-uncheck): Renamed to `vc-sccs-cancel-version'. Changed
parameter list, added checkout command.
(vc-sccs-checkin, vc-sccs-checkout): Don't bother to set file
properties; that gets done in the generic code now.
2000-09-05 Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
* vc.el: Docstring fixes (courtesy of checkdoc).
2000-09-05 Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
* vc.el (vc-checkout-writable-buffer-hook)
(vc-checkout-writable-buffer): Remove.
(vc-start-entry): Always call vc-log-edit, never vc-log-mode.
(vc-log-mode): Make it into a clean derived major mode.
(vc-log-edit): Mark buffer unmodified (as vc-log-mode did) and use
vc-log-mode if log-edit is not available.
(vc-dired-mode-map): Don't set-keymap-parent yet.
(vc-dired-mode): Do set-keymap-parent here.
(vc-dired-buffers-for-dir): Nop if dired is not loaded.
