bug#694: marked as done (23.0.60; wrong behaviour of

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I believe vc-workfile-unchanged-p and if the two timestamsps are the
>> same, it can conclude that the file is unchanged, but if the
>> timestamps are different, it should call the backend specific
>> workfile-unchanged-p function.
>
> For CVS if the user requested to `stay-local', this is not quite right
> either since it will connect to the server.  Admittedly, there's no way
> to get the right answer without connecting to the server, but this
> behavior has been with us for years and I usually consider it a feature
> (most/all the CVS servers I use are usually remote/slow/unreachable, so
> it's important to have control over when VC contacts the server and when
> it doesn't).

Should I revert the patch then?