bug#7905: 24.0.50; VC not updating file status properly anymore after commit from vc-dir

[Glenn Morris]

Tim Van Holder wrote:

>> Would it help for me to edebug particular VC defuns to see where
>> exactly things go wrong?
>
> It seems to run deeper than just commits. I'm seeing now that any
> CVS-controlled file I visit is marked as "CVS:1.x" (i.e. edited), even
> files in a freshly checked out sandbox. [C-x v u] clears that state,
> but saving the file, closing it and then revisiting it puts it in
> edited state again.

Well that is all very wacky. Does eg Emacs 23.2 work right on that
system at present with CVS? (This is a Cygwin build?)

You could try edebugging vc-cvs-state, vc-cvs-state-heuristic, and
vc-cvs-parse-entry. And the vc-cvs-*-dir-* functions if you want to
check vc-dir behaviour.