bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date"

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > 
  > > Do you use a CVS server or a local repository? 
  > 
  > A server (namely the Emacs server).

vc-cvs.el version 1.150 works for me with the emacs CVS server (as
annonymous user)

  > > I saw you checked in something to do with that, and now the default
  > > behavior for vc-dir is inconsistent with PCL-CVS and tkcvs (and probably
  > > all other CVS GUIs): if a file needs merging it says "edited" instead of
  > > "needs-merging", if it needs updating it says nothing.
  > 
  > Those states are impossible (?) to determine without contacting the
  > server. Presumably such inaccuracies are the price people who use
  > stay-local are willing to accept.
  > 
  > It sounds like you want vc-dir to ignore vc-stay-local, which I would
  > suggest is something that needs documenting. 

I just don't think it should be the default.  I do think that it's
fundamentally broken, so I don't want to have anything to do with it.

  > Or introduce a vc-dir-stay-local, default nil?

I'd prefer it *stay-local would not pollute vc-dir.el, none of the
modern VC systems needs it, so there's no good reason to deal with it in
the future.