Re: VC and bzr.

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I find the status indicator (the `:' or `-' chars that flags a file as
>>> modified on disk or not) very helpful.
>>
>> They don't get updated unless you revert the buffer, or do all your VC
>> ops from within Emacs.  So they lie to me quite a bit.
>
> In Emacs 21 (and 22, I think), C-x v v on a file that had been, say,
> committed outside of Emacs since you saved it would update that status
> (e.g., ":1.4" -> "-1.5").  That stopped working in 23 (not that it was
> ever a documented feature, I suppose); perhaps we should put it back, or
> add a command `vc-refresh' or so.  Of course, `revert-buffer' does work,
> but ideally this "new" feature would not lose the undo history and reapply
> the major mode and so on.

Can you please file a bug with a step by step description of the problem?