Subject: bug#5323: 23.1.91; VC-dir with bzr gives a lot of junk

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:32:07 -0800 (PST)

[email-masked] (Jan "Djärv)" writes:

  > Start emacs in /home/jhd/src/bzr/emacs/fixes/.
  > C-x v d <RETURN>
  > 
  > This shows 302 junk lines (no disrespect to Alex Schroeder intended)
  > before the actual files are listed:
  > 
  > VC backend : Bzr
  > Working dir: /home/jhd/src/bzr/emacs/fixes/
  > Parent branch      : /home/jhd/src/bzr/emacs/trunk
  > Shelves            : No shelved changes
  > 
  >                          ./
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail): Create the buffer using
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail-display-labels): Use identity instead ...
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail-ignored-headers): Merged several terms...
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail-message-subject-p, rmail-message-sende...
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail-nuke-pinhead-header, rmail-reformat-me...
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (rmail-summary-font-lock-keywords): Fix typo for
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 (unrmail): Use regular expression search to find
  >     nil                   Alex Schroeder 2006-01-16 *** empty log
  >     message ***
  > ... and so on.
  > 

Strange.
Can you reproduce this with emacs -Q?
Any idea where that stuff comes from?