Here are the two remaining patches that have not yet been applied from Issue 491 (see the Issue Tracker for more info if you dare!). This makes vc-dired work in all ways that I have tried with svn. But beware, the comment on the first line of this patch is longish. diff -u .dired-1.19/dired.el dired/dired.el --- .dired-1.19/dired.el Sun Jan 13 08:51:20 2008 +++ dired/dired.el Mon Apr 27 15:06:17 2009 ＠＠ -4801,6 +4803,7 ＠＠ ;; With optional second arg NO-REVERT, don't refresh the listing afterwards. ;; If subdir is non-nil, only changes the switches for the ;; sudirectory. + (dired-build-subdir-alist); why has this not been called by now? (if subdir (let ((elt (assoc subdir dired-subdir-alist))) (if elt (setcar (nthcdr 3 elt) switches))) And, you need to define vc-dired-terse-mode some where: --- vc-hooks.el~ Tue Mar 3 09:10:43 2009 +++ vc-hooks.el Mon May 4 15:03:50 2009 ＠＠ -38,6 +38,8 ＠＠ (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) +(defvar vc-dired-terse-mode nil) + ;; Customization Variables (the rest is in vc.el) (defvar vc-ignore-vc-files nil) -- Rodney Sparapani Center for Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR) Sr. Biostatistician http://www.mcw.edu/pcor 4 wheels good, 2 wheels better! Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) WWLD?: What Would Lombardi Do? Milwaukee, WI, USA _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches