From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 22:11:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Meta-CVS support removed. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~5738 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db86064f7352b4401d5ffe6681c408a2795347ec;p=emacs.git Meta-CVS support removed. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index 5453df460d8..25cf9dd8e58 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-05-07 Eric S. Raymond + + * aack.texi, files.texi, vc2-xtra.texi: Meta-CVS is no longer + supported. + 2008-05-02 Eric S. Raymond * emacs/buffers.texi, emacs/files.texi (Version-control): diff --git a/doc/emacs/ack.texi b/doc/emacs/ack.texi index 1eec6e55bd4..02ac0f56002 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ack.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/ack.texi @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ the @code{ebrowse} C@t{++} browser, @end itemize @item -Stefan Monnier added support for Arch, Subversion, and Meta-CVS to VC, +Stefan Monnier added support for Arch and Subversion to VC, and re-wrote much of the Emacs server to use the built-in networking primitives. He also wrote: diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 93883e847ee..0535a01aed0 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ description of what was changed in that version. The Emacs version control interface is called VC. Its commands work with different version control systems---currently, it supports CVS, -GNU Arch, RCS, Meta-CVS, Subversion, and SCCS. Of these, the GNU +GNU Arch, RCS, Subversion, and SCCS. Of these, the GNU project distributes CVS, GNU Arch, and RCS. We also have free software to replace SCCS, known as CSSC; if you are using SCCS and don't want to make the incompatible change to RCS or CVS, you can @@ -1291,8 +1291,8 @@ become a vitally important form of communication among developers. @subsubsection Supported Version Control Systems @cindex back end (version control) - VC currently works with six different version control systems or -``back ends'': SCCS, RCS, CVS, Meta-CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, + VC currently works with many different version control systems or +``back ends'': SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, git, and Mercurial. @comment Omitting bzr because support is very scratchy and incomplete. @@ -1326,13 +1326,6 @@ common tasks you still need to call CVS from the command line. Note also that before using CVS you must set up a repository, which is a subject too complex to treat here. -@cindex Meta-CVS - Meta-CVS uses CVS repositories, but has an enhanced client that -uses client-side information to solve various of the known problems -with CVS. It is not widely used, having been overtaken by Subversion. -The Emacs support for it is rudimentary, and may be removed in a -future version. - @cindex SVN @cindex Subversion Subversion is a free version control system designed to be similar diff --git a/doc/emacs/vc2-xtra.texi b/doc/emacs/vc2-xtra.texi index bf7343bf919..c4d6eac0c46 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/vc2-xtra.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/vc2-xtra.texi @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ headers. @vindex vc-handled-backends The variable @code{vc-handled-backends} determines which version control systems VC should handle. The default value is @code{(RCS CVS -SVN SCCS BZR GIT HG Arch MCVS)}, so it contains all the version systems +SVN SCCS BZR GIT HG Arch)}, so it contains all the version systems that are currently supported. If you want VC to ignore one or more of these systems, exclude its name from the list. To disable VC entirely, set this variable to @code{nil}. diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 613b998d563..97860693438 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-05-07 Eric S. Raymond + + * NEWS: Support for Meta-CVS removed. + 2008-05-05 Nick Roberts * compilation.txt: Add regexp for Open Watcom compiler output. diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 21f925e8293..cc788d746d3 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ active. For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality. This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function. +*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able +to update it to the new VC. + ** smerge-refine highlights word-level details of changes in conflict. It's used automatically as you move through conflicts, see smerge-auto-refine. diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index 437c4c2af3f..3dc7b942e1c 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ * vc.el, vc-dispatcher.el: VC-Dired support removed. The code uses a ewoc-based implementation now. + * vc-hooks.el: Support for Meta-CVS has been removed. 2008-05-07 Stefan Monnier diff --git a/lisp/vc-hooks.el b/lisp/vc-hooks.el index 1e2101e1361..06b1b3d36a9 100644 --- a/lisp/vc-hooks.el +++ b/lisp/vc-hooks.el @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -;; GNU General Public License for more details. +;; NU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ interpreted as hostnames." :type 'regexp :group 'vc) -(defcustom vc-handled-backends '(RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch MCVS) +(defcustom vc-handled-backends '(RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch) ;; RCS, CVS, SVN and SCCS come first because they are per-dir ;; rather than per-tree. RCS comes first because of the multibackend ;; support intended to use RCS for local commits (with a remote CVS server). @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ An empty list disables VC altogether." :group 'vc) ;; Note: we don't actually have a darcs back end yet. +;; Also, Meta-CVS (corresponsding to MCVS) is unsupported. (defcustom vc-directory-exclusion-list '("SCCS" "RCS" "CVS" "MCVS" ".svn" ".git" ".hg" ".bzr" "_MTN" "_darcs" "{arch}") diff --git a/lisp/vc-mcvs.el b/lisp/vc-mcvs.el index 2a8ea2cfb85..9eb91503089 100644 --- a/lisp/vc-mcvs.el +++ b/lisp/vc-mcvs.el @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: FSF (see vc.el for full credits) -;; Maintainer: Stefan Monnier +;; Maintainer: None ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.