Subject: bug#9781: 24.0.90; VC can't commit removed files/directories.

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:01:01 -0400

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Jan Djärv wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised nobody has seen this.
>
> It is a long-known issue that vc-dir does not handle removed files
> totally correctly,

The problem is in the vc-bzr backend.

vc-bzr-status should return nil when called for a file that has been
removed.  It does not.

Also it looks like there's a disconnect between 
bzr help status
[snip]
 unknown
      Not versioned and not matching an ignore pattern.

and the actual output:

bzr status NON_EXISTENT_FILE
nonexistent:
  NON_EXISTENT_FILE
bzr: ERROR: Path(s) do not exist: NON_EXISTENT_FILE
Exit 3