Subject: Re: bug#19343: 25.0.50; [vc-git] Unregistered file becomes `up-to-date' in vc-dir buffer after editing and saving

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:40:48 +0200

> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:19:27 +0200
> 
> > What's our minimum version?
> 
> Debian Stable has 1.7.10.4, but CentOS 6 - only 1.7.1.
> 
> So apparently we can use `status --short' (or rather --porcelain), but
> --ignored is no-go for now.

Why can't we use --ignored when it's available?  It doesn't feel right
to me to punish users of newer versions just because someone else out
there might not have such a version.