GNU bug report logs - #76769
31.0.50; marking inconsistency between VC-Dir and dired-vc-next-action

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 76769 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net,
 sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
Subject: Re: bug#76769: 31.0.50; marking inconsistency between VC-Dir and
 dired-vc-next-action
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:46:20 +0200

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
> Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev,  76769 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  sbaugh <at> janestreet.com,
>   juri <at> linkov.net
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:34:29 +0800
> 
> On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 10:01am +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, dmitry <at> gutov.dev, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
> >> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
> >> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:56:59 +0800
> >>
> >> I think that for all the operations VC supports, passing a whole
> >> directory along with some of the files in it is semantically equivalent
> >> to just passing the whole directory.  If would have to be an esoteric,
> >> highly VCS-specific operation to do anything other than that, I think?
> >
> > Are you sure this is true for all the supported VCSes?  AFAIR, some of
> > them considered directories in special ways, others ignored them.
> 
> I'm not I'm expert in all of them, and so I'm not sure, no.
> 
> Can you remember anything more specific, or point me to a particular
> VCS that you think might be different, that I could look into?

I think SVN might be such a VCS.

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