Re: vc-cvs-global-switches and -f

[Stefan Monnier]

> I was running "emacs.exe -Q" today and was puzzled to see that the
> output of `vc-diff' talked about "conflicting specifications of output
> style", until I remembered that I have an entry on ~/.cvsrc which
> says: "diff -u2", and the default style for VC is "-c".

> So the question is: why does Emacs by default assume that it is safe
> to use .cvsrc? It seems  to me that having "-f" as default for
> `vc-cvs-global-switches' would be more logical, specially because in a
> situation like mine above, having it set on my .emacs wouldn't have
> helped.

I for one would be annoyed to have to re-specify in Emacs the options I've
already set globally in my ~/.cvsrc.

In PCL-CVS I slove this dilemma by parsing the ~/.cvsrc file in order to set
the default value of config vars.


        Stefan