Re: Bug in vc.el, vc-insert-headers

[Gerd Moellmann]

edi@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz) writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I think there's a bug in Emacs' vc mode which makes insert-vc-headers
> _always_ think that version control headers are already there if
> you're using CVS:
> 
> Line 3068 in vc.el is
> 
>      'RCS     ;; CVS works like RCS in this regard.
> 
> but I think it should be
> 
>      RCS        ;; CVS works like RCS in this regard.
> 
> because vc-backend-dispatch is a macro and thus doesn't evaluate it's
> arguments.
> 
> My Emacs version is 20.7 and it came with the SuSE's 7.2 GNU/Linux
> distribution. I just checked that the same line 3068 can also be found
> in the 20.7 sources that can be downloaded from the GNU mirror at
> <ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/gnu/emacs/>.

I think this is fixed in the coming 21.1.  When it is released,
please check, and file a new bug report if it doesn't work.