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:
  > 
  > > That would be bad, things were working much better for the majority of
  > > people before the change.
  > 
  > There is no data on this; 

There is, I got many emails from people liking the backend, and
suggesting fixes and improvements.  On the other hand, there was exactly
one person asking for the current default behavior.

  > but I certainly respect your opinion as the author of vc-dir.

Thank you.

  > > Please change the default to do what it did before. I have no
  > > opinion on what to do about switching between the 2 behaviors as
  > > long as it does not touch vc-dir.el.
  > 
  > The only way I see to do this and comply with your restrictions is to
  > add something like vc-cvs-dir-stay-local (yuck), default nil; or
  > remove this feature altogether.

The former sounds good to me, if people want this behavior, they can
write elisp to set the variable. 

  > Svn currently does not contact the repository by default, which is how
  > it was before my changes too. Do you want any changes making there?

So you mean you did not change the default? (I haven't looked at the svn
changes).  If you want to make sure TRT happens, please ask Tom Tromey,
he wrote that code and AFAIK he uses it daily for real work on big
source trees.