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

[Glenn Morris]

Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Note that I only said that this is a bad default.
> Being inconsistent with all other similar tools (and hence user
> expectations) by default is wrong.

Traditionally this argument has cut very little ice in Emacs.

> That would be bad, things were working much better for the majority of
> people before the change.

There is no data on this; but I certainly respect your opinion as the
author of vc-dir.

> Please change the default to do what it did before. I have no
> opinion on what to do about switching between the 2 behaviors as
> long as it does not touch vc-dir.el.

The only way I see to do this and comply with your restrictions is to
add something like vc-cvs-dir-stay-local (yuck), default nil; or
remove this feature altogether.

Svn currently does not contact the repository by default, which is how
it was before my changes too. Do you want any changes making there?