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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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)? 

Yes, and I believe it is fixed now,


        Stefan