Subject: bug#20637: closed (Re: bug#20637: incompatible, undocumented change to vc-working-revision)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:07:03 +0000

Your bug report

#20637: incompatible, undocumented change to vc-working-revision

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#20637: incompatible, undocumented change to vc-working-revision
From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
To: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Cc: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:06:28 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Version: 25.1

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The current code has been in use for 11 months. Beside this bug report,
>> nobody has worried about that. And the problems this bug report speaks
>> about are solved, I believe.
>
> They are.

So I'm closing this bug.

Further discussion shall start on emacs-devel in a *new* thread. This bug
report has served its purpose.

Best regards, Michael.

Subject: incompatible, undocumented change to vc-working-revision
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:49:46 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Package: emacs
Version: 25.0.50

mkdir /tmp/git
cd /tmp/git
git init
touch 1

emacs-24.5:
  (vc-working-revision "1")  ;  -> nil

Current master:
  (vc-working-revision "1")  ;  "master"

C-h f vc-working-revision:
  If FILE is not registered, this function always returns nil.

This changes documented behaviour without updating the doc or making a
NEWS entry.

Example breakage:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-05/msg00384.html