From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 8603@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8603: 23.3.50; vc-dir can easily guess wrong VCS
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 16:17:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hwipts3lio.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aaf59u61.fsf@sc3d.org> (Reuben Thomas's message of "Mon, 02 May 2011 13:13:58 +0100")
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> If I run vc-dir on a directory /foo/bar/baz, where /foo/.bzr and
> /foo/bar/.git exist, then Emacs guesses wrongly that /foo/bar/baz is
> under Bzr.
This is the documented way it works, for the time being at least.
This is basically a duplicate of
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8179
> Further, deleting the .bzr directory (which was indeed bogus; it's
> obviously relatively rare to have a tree under one VCS inside a tree
> under another, with the exception of foreign modules, possibly?) did not
> help: I had to restart Emacs to get it to forget the .bzr directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-02 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-02 12:13 bug#8603: 23.3.50; vc-dir can easily guess wrong VCS Reuben Thomas
2011-05-02 20:17 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-05-02 21:18 ` Reuben Thomas
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