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28.0.50; read-directory-name in vc commands should provide defaults from projects

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41821 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#41821: 28.0.50; read-directory-name in vc commands should provide defaults from projects
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:19:27 +0300

On 25.06.2020 20:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> It would be a wrapper for a project.el function. But if it works for
>> you, okay.
> 
> We are going in circles again.  Can you explain why vc-known-roots
> cannot be moved to vc.el in its entirety?

To re-iterate:

- We can't just move it: it accesses information private to project.el.

- We can't move said information (the variable and mechanism to 
save/restore it) because, for one thing, we want to store history on all 
projects, not just VC based ones.

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