# [PATCH] Automatically add GIT as a VC backend

3 messages from 2007-03-01 to 2007-03-03. Participants: Xavier Maillard, Alexandre Julliard.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7044

## Xavier Maillard, 2007-03-01 23:52

Subject: [PATCH] Automatically add GIT as a VC backend
Message-ID: <28587.1172793178@localhost>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/28587.1172793178%40localhost

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Hi,

A small patch with following changes:

Automatically add GIT as a VC backend

Remove byte-compiler warning with an eval of vc
---
 contrib/emacs/vc-git.el |   13 +++++++------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el b/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
index e456ab9..a2d3932 100644
--- a/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
+++ b/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
@@ -22,18 +22,19 @@
 ;; This file contains a VC backend for the git version control
 ;; system.
 ;;
-;; To install: put this file on the load-path and add GIT to the list
-;; of supported backends in `vc-handled-backends'; the following line,
-;; placed in your ~/.emacs, will accomplish this:
-;;
-;;     (add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'GIT)
+;; To install: put this file on the load-path.
 ;;
 ;; TODO
 ;;  - changelog generation
 ;;  - working with revisions other than HEAD
 ;;
 
-(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
+(eval-when-compile 
+  (require 'cl)
+  (require 'vc))
+
+;; Add it automatically
+(add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'GIT)
 
 (defvar git-commits-coding-system 'utf-8
   "Default coding system for git commits.")
-- 
Xavier

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## Alexandre Julliard, 2007-03-02 11:12

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Automatically add GIT as a VC backend
Message-ID: <87zm6vvqzt.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87zm6vvqzt.fsf%40wine.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <28587.1172793178@localhost>

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Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:

> @@ -22,18 +22,19 @@
>  ;; This file contains a VC backend for the git version control
>  ;; system.
>  ;;
> -;; To install: put this file on the load-path and add GIT to the list
> -;; of supported backends in `vc-handled-backends'; the following line,
> -;; placed in your ~/.emacs, will accomplish this:
> -;;
> -;;     (add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'GIT)
> +;; To install: put this file on the load-path.

Simply putting it on the load-path is not enough to make it work,
you'd still have to load it explicitly; it's not clear to me that this
is better than adding it to vc-handled-backends. We can of course
support both approaches, so the rest of your patch is fine, I just
don't think the installation instructions should be changed.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org

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## Xavier Maillard, 2007-03-03 09:31

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Automatically add GIT as a VC backend
Message-ID: <14819.1172914318@localhost>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/14819.1172914318%40localhost
In-Reply-To: <87zm6vvqzt.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>

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Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> wrote:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > @@ -22,18 +22,19 @@
> >  ;; This file contains a VC backend for the git version control
> >  ;; system.
> >  ;;
> > -;; To install: put this file on the load-path and add GIT to the list
> > -;; of supported backends in `vc-handled-backends'; the following line,
> > -;; placed in your ~/.emacs, will accomplish this:
> > -;;
> > -;;     (add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'GIT)
> > +;; To install: put this file on the load-path.
> 
> Simply putting it on the load-path is not enough to make it work,
> you'd still have to load it explicitly; it's not clear to me that this
> is better than adding it to vc-handled-backends. 

You are right.

Xavier

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