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,

> Can you please fix it on the 22.2 branch too? 

Done,


        Stefan