Re: [PATCH] Automatically add GIT as a VC backend

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org>]

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