bug#42966: 28.0.50; vc-dir: wrong backend

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Indeed, it just seems like the Right Thing to Do, not a hack.
> Not having been paying attention, I was surprised to see the adopted solution
> goes for "loop over every VC backend, and every directory up the tree,
> then filter the results", rather than "walk up the directory tree,
> stopping when a backend claims responsibility".

That would be the natural thing to do, but would be an incompatible
interface change.  (Only important for out-of-tree backends, though.)

And it would require tweaking a handful of the in-tree backends; see the
overview I posted the other week, but it didn't look complicated.

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