bug#4868: 23.1; "No fileset is available here"

[Dan Nicolaescu]

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

  > >> I modified a file in a git-managed directory.
  > >> Then I typed `C-x v ='.
  > >> I got an error: "No fileset is available here".
  > 
  > > Is this file not registered with Git?
  > 
  > > If yes, then that's the error it would get.
  > > emacs-22 used to have a nicer looking error in that case: "File is not
  > > under version control".   Not sure why that check got removed, there's
  > > nothing in the ChangeLog to explain it :-(
  > 
  > Would the patch below make sense?  After all, at that point we've

Looks fine to me.

  > already checked we're visiting a file, there's no backend and we're not
  > in vc-dir-mode, so a message like "No fileset is available here" is
  > probably never right.



  > 
  >         Stefan
  > 
  > 
  > === modified file 'lisp/vc.el'
  > --- lisp/vc.el      2009-10-24 18:33:25 +0000
  > +++ lisp/vc.el      2009-11-05 02:00:24 +0000
  > @@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
  >             nil)
  >     (list (vc-backend-for-registration (buffer-file-name))
  >           (list buffer-file-name))))
  > -     (t (error "No fileset is available here")))))
  > +     (t (error "File is not under version control")))))
  >  
  >  (defun vc-ensure-vc-buffer ()
  >    "Make sure that the current buffer visits a version-controlled file."