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#2675
23.0.91; unnecessary vc-next-action conflicts in vc-dir directory
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Reported by: Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:55:04 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #13 received at 2675 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> > vc-dir-deduce-fileset: /tmp/zonk/newf4:unregistered clashes with /tmp/zonk/newf2:up-to-date
> >
> > This seems like a silly and pointless error -- it should probably simply
> > ignore any "up-to-date" entries when checking for conflicts.
>
> If you look at vc-next-action, you'll see that it's possible to do
> things to files in the 'up-to-date state, and it's not the same as what
> it's done to unregistered files.
>
> vc-next-action wants to treat all the files the same, that's the reason
> for this check.
AFAICS, that's only true in certain circumstances, which
vc-next-action could check for: (1) it's a locking system, or (2) the
user specified a prefix arg (I guess meaning "move to another rev".
In the default case, I think it's simply being annoyingly pedantic.
-miles
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