bug#16254: 24.3.50; bzr error on emacs trunk using vc-print-log

[Christoph]

vc-print-log was executed from a dired buffer when this happened. vc-print-root-log works correctly and prints the Emacs bzr logs.

vc.el has the following code in vc-print-log:

  (let* ((vc-fileset (vc-deduce-fileset t)) ;FIXME: Why t? --Stef

(backend (car vc-fileset))

(files (cadr vc-fileset))

;; (working-revision (or working-revision (vc-working-revision (car files))))

         )

    (vc-print-log-internal backend files working-revision nil limit)))

The t in vc-decude-fileset allows unregistered files per the documentation. To follow Stefan's questions, why would we want unregistered files to be included in the fileset for the log command?

I think this should be changed to disallow unregistered files.

Christoph

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Christoph <cschol2112@gmail.com> wrote:

Some more information on this issue: 

`vc-print-log` works find in a sub-directory of the tree, e.g. admin.

It looks like aclocal.m4 is ignored via .bzrignore and it is the first file in the root tree (after running configure and such).

I seem to remember we had a similar problem before that was fixed at some point.

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Christoph <cschol2112@gmail.com> wrote:

Running `vc-print-log` on a directory containing the Emacs trunk gives
the following error:

bzr: ERROR: Path unknown at end or start of revision range: aclocal.m4



In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2013-12-14 on marvin
Bzr revision: 115528 tzz@lifelogs.com-20131214195519-pi759t6a59vg9b1i
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