Re: vc-state and unregistered

[Michael Albinus]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dmitry,

>> IOW: if vc-file-getprop returns nil, we don't know what this
>> means. Either "don't know", because the state hasn't been computed
>> yet. Or it means "unregistered".
>
> That could be fixed with using `none' instead, like `vc-backend'
> does. Which I've mentioned already.

That's the direction I have thought also. But in `vc-state' there is the
following comment:

  ;; Note: in Emacs 22 and older, return of nil meant the file was
  ;; unregistered.  This is potentially a source of
  ;; backward-compatibility bugs.

Since I don't know why nil has been replaced by `unregistered', it might
be a problem to use nil again as indication of unregistered files. And
we shouldn't change the interface wantonly, I believe.

Best regards, Michael.