Subject: bug#21383: Static revisions in vc-working-revision

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:36:39 -0400

>> Also VC was designed when revisions were per-file, and the way we
>> extended it is to say that it's OK to have an out-of-date revision
>> number for a given file, if that file's content is the same in the
>> current revision.
> This might be one of the more annoying discrepancies,

Why?  In which kinds of circumstances can this bite us?

        Stefan