bug#308: vc-delete-file

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > No need to argue that it's a bug, I agree.
  > [ For what it's worth, I'd recommend you vc-delete-file before doing
  >   your tests, tho.  After all, you can always undo it before committing
  >   if it turns out it was a bad idea.  ]
  > 
  > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "File myfilename no longer exists!")
  > >   signal(error ("File myfilename no longer exists!"))
  > >   error("File %s no longer exists!" "myfilename")
  > >   revert-buffer(t t t)
  > >   vc-revert-buffer-internal(t t)
  > >   vc-resynch-window("myfilename" #<buffer convert_config.mli> t)
  > >   vc-resynch-buffer("myfilename" #<buffer convert_config.mli> t)
  > >   vc-delete-file("myfilename")
  > >   call-interactively(vc-delete-file t nil)
  > >   execute-extended-command(nil)
  > >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  > 
  > > i.e., you just deleted it yourself - and now you are complaining that
  > > the file does not exist!
  > > I would rather expect kill-buffer instead of revert-buffer.
  > 
  > I've just changed the code to kill the buffer, indeed.

That's not quite right, the *vc-dir* buffers where this file might have
been displayed need to be updated.   I checked in an alternative fix
that I've had in my tree and seems to DTRT.