Re: Patch: makes tramp-vc.el work w/ CVS servers that reject absolute pathnames

[Francis Litterio]

Kai Großjohann wrote:

> With your patch, things rely on the current working directory being
> the same directory as the filename given.
>
> How about changing (file-name-nondirectory path) to something which
> gives the path relative to the current directory?  Maybe
> (file-relative-name file default-directory)?
>
> I used file instead of path as the first arg for file-relative-name
> because default-directory also includes the user/host prefix stuff.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds good.  So my patch changes to the one shown below, correct?  I've
switched to this version of the patch, and it seems to work.
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--- tramp-vc.el 17 Jun 2002 10:57:20 -0000      2.2
+++ tramp-vc.el 27 Nov 2002 18:04:15 -0000
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@
 
 ;; -- vc --
 
+(defcustom tramp-vc-use-relative-pathnames nil
+  "*If non-nil, supply a relative pathname to the version control backend
+command, otherwise supply an absolute pathname.  Use this if your version
+control system doesn't accept absolute pathnames."
+  :group 'tramp
+  :type 'boolean)
+
+
 ;; This used to blow away the file-name-handler-alist and reinstall
 ;; TRAMP into it. This was intended to let VC work remotely. It didn't,
 ;; at least not in my XEmacs 21.2 install.
@@ -174,7 +182,10 @@
              (path (when file (tramp-file-name-path v))))
       (setq squeezed (delq nil (copy-sequence flags)))
       (when file
-       (setq squeezed (append squeezed (list path))))
+       (setq squeezed (append squeezed (list
+                                        (if tramp-vc-use-relative-pathnames
+                                            (file-relative-name file 
default-directory)
+                                          path)))))
       (let ((w32-quote-process-args t))
         (when (eq okstatus 'async)
           (message "Tramp doesn't do async commands, running synchronously."))