>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
SY> X-Sent: 48 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes, 27 seconds ago
SY> This has got to be a record for the longest time taken to follow up on
SY> a post. I suppose "sorry" probably wouldn't cut it in this case.
I
SY> could sacrifice my first born if you like, no, hang on, on 2nd
SY> thoughts, how about my ex-wife?
SY> At the very least, please accept my most sincere and humblest
SY> apologies. Do you even remember posting this?
SY> |--==> "n" == nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net> writes:
n> I marked a bunch of files in pcl-cvs mode. Then I chose "undo
n> changes" from the menu. It prompts "Delete 8 files?". Rather
n> misleading.
SY> Actually, this is correct behaviour. The menu item "undo changes"
SY> runs 'cvs-mode-undo', that function undoes all the local changes to
SY> the marked files in the PCL-CVS buffer. It does it by deleting the
SY> local file and then runs 'cvs update FILE'.
SY> So when it asks you "Delete x files?" that's exactly what it is
going
SY> to do.
SY> Well, that's what I get from the doc string of 'cvs-mode-undo'.
It may be literally correct, but I was surprised and confused by this
question. I wasn't quite sure whether it was doing just what you
describe, or whether it had gone insane and was offering to delete 8
files at random. IIRC, it didn't tell me which 8 files it wanted to
delete, which didn't help either.