Re: VC Dired Mode doesn't support recursive directory?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> >> 1. M-x vc-directory gives me a list of changed files in current
>> >> >> directory and one sub directory.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 2. I marked all files, then `v v', it prompts this in the minibuffer: 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> ,----
>> >> >> | All members of a fileset must be under the same version-control 
>> >> >> system.
>> >> >> `----
>> >> 
>> >> > Were some of the files that you selected unregistered? If yes, then the
>> >> > error you get is expected (although the wording could be improved to
>> >> > make it more clear).
>> >> 
>> >> BTW, I think there's a fundamental error in VC's handling of backends,
>> >> right now:  The backend should be a buffer-local property, not
>> >> a file-local property.
>> 
>> > So what happens with files that are not in any buffer (like probably a
>> > lot of files that would appear in vc-dired)?
>> 
>> Huh?  If they're in vc-dired, they're in a buffer.

> There seems to be a misunderstanding here. Why would the files be in a
> buffer? One can edit something, quit emacs and then 2 weeks later run
> vc-dired.  It's possible that none of the files that vc-dired shows to
> be in a buffer.

But any VC operation is run from a buffer.  Either a file buffer or a VC
buffer.  The backend to use should depend on the buffer, not on the (set
of) file(s).


        Stefan