bug#18975: 24.4; vc-svn does not recognize file externals as svn-managed files

[Tim Van Holder]

I honestly don't know.

debbugs.gnu.org seems unusable (timeout during TLS handshake), so I can't check my original report to see exactly what the issue was, or if I still have local changes.

I can say that I am currently running the 26.1 supplied by Debian, and vc-svn.el.gz has the same timestamp as all the other .el.gz files, so it certainly looks like it's the version that ships with Debian.

And that Emacs has no issue recognizing at least some file externals as version-controlled.

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 12:40, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:

Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6 November 2014 16:46, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
[..]
>  > resolves my issue, but I can't be sure it doesn't cause problems
>  > elsewhere.
>
>  Hopefully someone else knows better, but otherwise I suggest you try to
>  use this change for a while, testing it with things like
>  diff/annotate/younameit.
>
>  And then report here if you really think that works better.
>
> Well it makes vc-svn recognize the files as svn-controlled, so it definitely works better :-)
> I'll see about putting a fixed version in a private load path, so that if it breaks something it doesn't affect all users.

That was five years ago.  Are you still using this change?  Does it
work better?  If so, do you still suggest that it should be installed
in the Emacs master branch?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas