GNU bug report logs - #8603
23.3.50; vc-dir can easily guess wrong VCS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 12:15:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Merged with 3807, 8179, 18514, 42966

Found in versions 23.3.50, 24.0.50, 24.3, 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 8603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 8603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8603: 23.3.50; vc-dir can easily guess wrong VCS
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 16:17:19 -0400

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> If I run vc-dir on a directory /foo/bar/baz, where /foo/.bzr and
> /foo/bar/.git exist, then Emacs guesses wrongly that /foo/bar/baz is
> under Bzr.

This is the documented way it works, for the time being at least.
This is basically a duplicate of

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8179


> Further, deleting the .bzr directory (which was indeed bogus; it's
> obviously relatively rare to have a tree under one VCS inside a tree
> under another, with the exception of foreign modules, possibly?) did not
> help: I had to restart Emacs to get it to forget the .bzr directory.
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