From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-find-root does not work for non-existent file argument Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200707160050.l6G0oxfm014234@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184871086 2052 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2007 18:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 19 20:51:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBb5u-00028G-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:51:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBb5u-0002UX-GP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBb5s-0002US-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBb5r-0002UG-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBb5r-0002U6-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBb5q-0004jD-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.83.84]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070719185117.LERY1673.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 64BAE86FB; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:51:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200707160050.l6G0oxfm014234@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun\, 15 Jul 2007 17\:50\:59 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75134 Archived-At: > If FILE that is managed using either hg or bzr (both of which use > vc-find-root) is deleted, doing C-x C-f FILE RET after that will not > result emacs asking the question: "File FILE was lost; check out from > version control? " > The reason is that (vc-find-root FILE BLAH) returns nil, so VC thinks > that FILE is not under version control. > vc-find-root returns nil because of the way the result of > file-attributes is used... I believe this is fixed now, but there seem to be a related problem left over, ... working on it, Stefan