Re: vc-find-root does not work for non-existent file argument

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > If FILE that is managed using either hg or bzr (both of which use
  > > vc-find-root) is deleted, doing C-x C-f FILE RET after that will not
  > > result emacs asking the question: "File FILE was lost; check out from
  > > version control? "
  > 
  > > The reason is that (vc-find-root FILE BLAH) returns nil, so VC thinks
  > > that FILE is not under version control. 
  > > vc-find-root returns nil because of the way the result of
  > > file-attributes is used...
  > 
  > I believe this is fixed now, but there seem to be a related problem left
  > over, ... working on it,

Is the issue you are still looking at something like this: 

mkdir -p /tmp/foo/bar

(vc-find-root "/tmp/foo/" "bar") => nil (instead of t)?