Re: Redesigh of the VC front end

[Stefan Monnier]

> That's what I'm working towards.  That is, vc-dir-show-directories always
> on and simply passing the directory args down to the back ends.

Sounds good.

>> > But maybe there's a difference between "." and "the entire repo".
>> There should be some experts in various VC systems on the list. 
>> Can we please have an answer to for the above question?
> There sure is a difference.  They might be the same if "." is the
> top-level directory of the repo or checkout, but not otherwise.

I don't think we should provide a way for the user to operate on a part
of the tree which is not shown in the buffer.  We may want to provide
a way to "cd ..", but nothing more.


        Stefan