Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone

[Eric S. Raymond]

Karl Fogel <address@hidden>:
> Without even looking at the VC code, I'm pretty confident that VC
> doesn't cache anything significant about remote repository state beyond
> what the local working copy already caches (for systems that do not
> simply clone the entire repository locally, that is).  After all, it
> would be very surprising for Emacs VC to find a need to cache something
> that the underlying version control system doesn't already cache for its
> own purposes... though I suppose stranger things have happened.
> 
> I could be wrong, and if I am then it'll be interesting to be corrected.
> If I'm right, at least I've saved ESR the time of typing the above :-).

Nope, you're quite right.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>