Re: vc-directory breakage

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
>   > >   > What is the actual failure you are seeing?
>   > > 
>   > > For a mercurial repo:
>   > > 
>   > >   intern(nil [0 0 0 0 Makefile\.mk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ~/r/hgtest/ 0 0])
>   > >   vc-file-getprop(nil vc-mtn-root)
>   > >   vc-mtn-root("Makefile.mk")
>   > >   vc-mtn-responsible-p("Makefile.mk")
>   > >   apply(vc-mtn-responsible-p "Makefile.mk")
>   > >   vc-call-backend(Mtn responsible-p "Makefile.mk")
>   > 
>   > This looks to me like a failure in the root backend method, not a generic
>   > problem in the VC front end.  What am I missing here?
> 
> A few lines below what you cited:
> 
>   vc-responsible-backend("Makefile.mk")
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> either having the backend available, or using an absolute file name
> would make this work.

OK, then I think I've fixed this one already.
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