Tom Tromey writes: > Today I accidentally committed one file but not another one from > *vc-dir*. That happened because point was on one file, not on the > containing directory as I'd thought. > > It would be nice if the VC commit message buffer listed the files that > were going to be committed. Such a list should automatically be > stripped out before being sent to the underlying command as the commit > message. (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved at the time.) It seems like this was implemented a some point in the years since this was reported. By default, Emacs shows the included screenshot now, so I'm closing this bug report.