Re: vc-directory breakage

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"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.