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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:11:03 +0200

On 12/17/2014 05:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

Sure we can, it's just more code complexity to support different code paths.

Considering there hasn't been many user complaints about either issue 
(vc-git-state never returns `ignored'; vc-git-dir-status-files is slower 
that it could be), maybe that's not worth it. Waiting a few years would 
be easier.