GNU bug report logs - #39380
26.3: Opening files in vc-dir-mode with differing root and working dir fails

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Wolfgang Scherer <Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de>, 39380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39380: 26.3: Opening files in vc-dir-mode with differing root and working dir fails
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 10:20:45 +0300

On 01.02.2020 3:13, Wolfgang Scherer wrote:
> It is IMHO better to remove the hybrid state of `vc-dir-mode`, where
> the default directory is different from the root directory

If you mean to always open VC-Dir in repository roots, I'm not sure we 
can do that.

We had a discussion about that at one point (purely for reasons of 
usability), and turns out some people routinely open VC-Dir in 
subdirectories. To focus on a subset of a project, or whatever.

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