Subject: bug#23344: closed (Re: bug#23344: 25.0.93; (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory))

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:23:02 +0000

Your bug report

#23344: 25.0.93; (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory)

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

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Subject: Re: bug#23344: 25.0.93; (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory)
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: Leo Liu <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:22:19 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Leo,

On 04/23/2016 05:32 PM, Leo Liu wrote:

> 1. Open a directory under git in dired and eval
> 2. (progn (vc-file-clearprops default-directory)
>           (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory))
> 3. observe the odd string: "Git-04030c40afcef0b9b41fd79ad094c4a7d2c2cc27master"

Thanks for the report. I've fixed it in 87ee542.

Is there a particular place where you're calling `mode-line-string' on a 
directory, though?

The return value in this case is poorly defined, because the string 
includes a character indicator of the current VC state of FILE, and the 
VC API doesn't define VC states for directories.

Subject: 25.0.93; (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory)
From: Leo Liu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:32:31 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

1. Open a directory under git in dired and eval
2. (progn (vc-file-clearprops default-directory)
          (vc-call-backend 'Git 'mode-line-string default-directory))
3. observe the odd string: "Git-04030c40afcef0b9b41fd79ad094c4a7d2c2cc27master"

Leo