Subject: Re: bug#76769: 31.0.50; marking inconsistency between VC-Dir and dired-vc-next-action

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:18:29 +0200

On 14/03/2025 05:41, Sean Whitton wrote:

> - When you try to mark a file but you can't because the directory is
>    already marked, unmark the directory first.

That one sounds a little odd, doesn't it? Marking something would be 
expected to extend the set of files acted upon, and here it the opposite.

> - When you use unmark on a file that is not explicitly marked but its
>    directory is marked, unmark the directory and mark all files under it
>    except the current one.
> 
> - When you try to mark a directory but you can't because a file under it
>    is already marked, unmark all files under it and mark the directory,
>    instead.
> 
> - When you use unmark on a directory that is not marked but has some
>    files under it marked, unmark all of those.

All these sound great.