GNU bug report logs - #18619
24.3.93; vc-svn-ignore is broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.3.93

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 18619 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18619: 24.3.93; vc-svn-ignore is broken
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:46:04 -0400

> The attached patch mostly takes care of this. The change to `vc-ignore'
> is needed because this property doesn't work with absolute paths. And
> passing a relative path to backend `ignore' implementations make sense
> anyway.

The vc-svn.el change is fine for emacs-24 since the existing code is indeed
hopelessly broken (so it won't be worse in any case).
But could you explain why you think the vc.el change is safe (I can agree
it makes sense, but I want to be extra sure the change is safe).


        Stefan
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