Re: [patch] vc-find-root with invert

[Justin Bogner <mail@justinbogner.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Justin Bogner <mail@justinbogner.com> writes:
>> However, for the other case, we need traverse upwards until we don't
>> find the directory, returning the last one that does.
> 
> Why?  CVS or SVN do not do this either.  Subdirectories with .svn in
> them are self-contained work directories with associated repository
> location.
> 
>> As far as getting rid of invert, we could do that, and the function
>> would then return something more reasonable than it does now, but it
>> wouldn't actually find the root unless you happened to try the root
>> first.
> 
> There is no dedicated root in CVS or SVN.  You never need to look at
> .. in order to do local operations.  You can move your directory out to
> a different location under a different "root" and things will work just
> the same from there.
> 
> Which is pretty much the principal reason for every directory having its
> own CVS or .svn subdirectories.
> 

Is this still true if you need to do nonlocal operations? If so then this is
indeed a misfeature.

ps: sent to David and forgot to CC emacs-devel, sorry.