bug#7905: 24.0.50; VC not updating file status properly anymore after commit from vc-dir

[Glenn Morris]

Tim Van Holder wrote:

> Think I see the problem being caused by vc-cvs-state-heuristic;

This doesn't make sense to me, because vc-dir supposedly never uses that.
But if so, setting vc-cvs-stay-local to nil should make everything work.

> it uses the file's checkout property:
>   (vc-file-getprop file 'vc-checkout-time)
> But this seems to always return 0 when I try to open a CVS-controlled
> file, which means vc-cvs-state-heuristic will only report either
> 'added or 'edited.

Maybe edebugging vc-cvs-parse-entry will show why this is so.
Perhaps the CVS/Entries file has an unexpected format.