Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe we're not talking about the same "tree traversal".  But AFAICT,
>> vc-dired uses `ls' somewhere, where I think it should neither use `ls'
>> nor `directory-files' nor anything equivalent in the generic code.

> I think this is no longer true.  I looked for directory-files throughout
> the VC files; none of the uses are within vc-dired-hook anymore,

vc-directory calls dired-internal-noselect which does the directory
listing (typically using `ls').

> So I think we've actually achieved what you want.

Not yet.

>> That would also allow us to get rid of vc-directory-exclusion-list.

> Not unless we want to wire an equivalent back into speedbar.el.

That's a good idea in any case: speedbar shouldn't need to rely on VC
for that.

> It's also genuinely needed in vc-next-action.

I don't see it used there.


        Stefan