Re: VC state

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

  >  >   > * vc-status doesn't seem to heed vc-stay-local or vc-cvs-stay-local.
  >  > 
  >  > That is fine, vc-status does not care about those, it just displays
  >  > whatever the backend tells it to display.  The backends are the ones
  >  > that are supposed to take care of this.
  > 
  > I don't understand.  After vc-dired has gone, how do I find which files 
under
  > version control are modified without consulting the (remote) repository?
  > Do you just mean that this functionality is yet to be implemented but when
  > it is it won't be done in vc-status?

Exactly.  This is similar to what vc-dired does.  The backends are
responsible for the information that vc-status displays.
If you actually care about such functionality you might want to
volunteer to implement, it's pretty low on the priority list...