Emacs integration - an overview
Dan Christensen
jdc at uwo.ca
Wed Aug 31 09:36:59 CDT 2005
Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> writes:
> I'm trying to get the emacs mercurial support working for me in
> Gnu Emacs. I'm using hg tip from a few minutes ago (version
> 31dcaf9123ba), and I get either
>
> abort: /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/ not under repository root
>
> if I do a global command, or
>
> vc-ensure-vc-buffer: File /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/python/todo is not under version control
>
> if I do a local command. The repository directory is in
> /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/.hg and the file .../python/todo
> *is* under hg's control...
After updating to Matt's tip, the global commands now work.
And I think I know what the problem is with local commands:
I have a symlink from ~/CayleyDickson to ~/math/me/CayleyDickson.
If I do:
cd ~/math/me/CayleyDickson
emacs python/todo
then local commands work. But if I do:
cd ~/CayleyDickson
emacs python/todo
then they don't. This is because:
cd /home/jdc/CayleyDickson
hg status python/todo
hg status /home/jdc/CayleyDickson/python/todo
abort: /home/jdc/CayleyDickson/python/todo not under root
hg status /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/python/todo
cd /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/
hg status python/todo
hg status /home/jdc/CayleyDickson/python/todo
abort: /home/jdc/CayleyDickson/python/todo not under root
hg status /home/jdc/math/me/CayleyDickson/python/todo
The status command seems to always fail when the file is referenced
via the symlink, whether or not the current directory is through the
symlink. Maybe hg should uniformly decide whether to expand symlinks
for all file names (at least, for symlinks above the repo root)?
Dan
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