bug#37189: 25.4.1: vc-hg-ignore implementation is missing

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.02.2020 2:29, Wolfgang Scherer wrote:

> > Please let us know if you see any unexpected problems.
> OK, here is one: Since vc-default-ignore no longer normalizes the
> relative file names, vc-dir-ignore should do the entire processing,
> just as vc-ignore in interactive mode does.
>
> When calling vc-dir with a sub-directory of the repository root, the
> relative file names against default-directory are not equivalent to
> the relative file names against the root. I.e., the file names written
> to the root ignore file are wrong.

Thanks, should be fixed now in commit 9ec6eb1065.

> > > What will be the time frame for starting Emacs 28 topics?
> >
> > Since the discussion of vc-ignore in Emacs 27 seems finished, we can go on 
> > ahead with that right now.
> Good.

Okay then. Would you like to update the patch for vc-hg-ignore that this 
bug report started from? I think it can be simplified a little, and 
otherwise it looks good to me (for Emacs 28, at least).

Or do you want to go straight for the API redesign?