Re: PATCH: Various changes for vcs_info

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Replying to myself...

Turns out, the list software rejects some attachments, too. I've put the
patch up here for now:
  <http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/tmp/vcs_info-changes.patch>

Below is a full-quote of my original message.

Frank Terbeck wrote:
> Here's a huge update for `vcs_info' on which I've been working for quite
> some time with two very helpful people, Seth and Simon.
>
> The major changes are vast improvements for the mercurial (hg) backend
> (which was done almost entirely by Seth); improved documentation (mostly
> done by Simon and again Seth); quilt support (as an addon and stand
> alone, see the manual for details); a number of new hooks and a fair
> share of bugfixes.
>
> Below is a condensed version of a who-did-what from my patch history. If
> someone cares for more detail, the changes were tracked in git and the
> branch can currently be seen here:
>
>     <http://github.com/ft/zsh-ft/commits/ft/vcs_info>
>
> Seth House:
>       Fix mq-patch + hg-bookmarks logic
>       Numerous code improvements
>       Mercurial examples for the examples file
>       Documentation improvements
>       Unapplied mq-patches support
>       Flavour support for `hg'
>       Rearranging the `misc' argument logic
>
> Simon Ruderich:
>       Documentation fixes
>       Documentation improvements
>       Add vcs_info example file
>       Example about selectively running vcs_info
>       Early testing and bugspotting
>
> Frank Terbeck:
>       Fix `read-only' attribute for internal variables in hooks
>       Add `start-up' and `pre-get-data' hooks
>       Add `post-backend' hook
>       Add Quilt support
>       Rearranging the `misc' argument logic
>       Various examples
>       Documentation updates
>       Added user_data array
>
> This adds a file `Misc/vcs_info-examples' (like `Misc/compctl-examples')
> which contains a number of larger examples on how to use vcs_info. I
> hope adding that file is okay - scream if it is not (Cc:ed Peter to make
> sure this is okay).
>
> I squashed the changes into one patch in order to avoid flooding the
> list with a ~40-patch series.  This really has become a bit too big
> and should have been merged more regularly. In fact the patch has
> become so huge, that it'll probably be rejected by the mailing list
> software, I've attached a gzipped version of it.
>
> I'll let it sit here for the weekend before committing it.
>
> Regards, Frank
>
> ---
>  Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo                                |  506 ++++++++++++++-------
>  Functions/VCS_Info/.distfiles                     |    1 +
>  Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_detect_hg    |   14 +-
>  Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git |   35 +-
>  Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_hg  |  295 +++++++++----
>  Functions/VCS_Info/VCS_INFO_formats               |   26 +-
>  Functions/VCS_Info/VCS_INFO_hook                  |   10 +-
>  Functions/VCS_Info/VCS_INFO_quilt                 |  190 ++++++++
>  Functions/VCS_Info/vcs_info                       |   30 +-
>  Misc/.distfiles                                   |    1 +
>  Misc/vcs_info-examples                            |  496 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  11 files changed, 1303 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Functions/VCS_Info/VCS_INFO_quilt
>  create mode 100644 Misc/vcs_info-examples
>