bug#8179: 24.0.50; vc thinks that SVN takes care of all my files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

>>  Or the svn checker should either be made smarter, or if that is
>> impossible, be moved to the end of the list by default.
>
> Then I guess you would have the same issue with the next element in the
> list.

That would be the case if any of the other backends are as, er,
permissive as the SVN backend is.  Which I slightly doubt.

But, really, this is a bug in the SVN detection function.  It's
perfectly legitimate to, say, check in your ~/.emacs in SVN.  If you do
that now, then the Emacs vc functionality will break completely for all
the other files you have under your home directory.

So, like I said, I think the SVN checker should be made smarter, if
possible.  I don't use SVN, so I have no idea whether that's possible or
not.

If it's not possible, it should be moved to the end of the list.

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