bug#737: vc-dir reports unregistered-then-deleted file is "up-to-date"

[Nick Roberts]

 >   > It sounds like you want vc-dir to ignore vc-stay-local, which I would
 >   > suggest is something that needs documenting. 
 > 
 > I just don't think it should be the default.  I do think that it's
 > fundamentally broken, so I don't want to have anything to do with it.

It might be sensible to make vc-stay-local default to nil but to just ignore
it will only confuse users.

 >   > Or introduce a vc-dir-stay-local, default nil?
 > 
 > I'd prefer it *stay-local would not pollute vc-dir.el, none of the
 > modern VC systems needs it, so there's no good reason to deal with it in
 > the future.

We've been here before and some of us said that we found vc-stay-local useful.
There are probably many users, RMS included, who don't have permanent or fast
access to the Internet.  I think that's a good reason to deal with it.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob