[issue488] Re: VC submenu under Tools

[Rodney Sparapani]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>> BTW, I just tried using vc+dired integration for the first time and either I 
>> don't understand how it works (which is quite likely as I've never really 
>> used dired either) or it's quite broken; I get "dired-subdir-alist seems to 
>> be mangled" when I try to do something in a vc-dired-mode buffer.
> 
> Same here and, for me, dired-subdir-alist is nil.  This variable comes 
> from dired.el and the error message must be coming from the function
> also defined therein, dired-current-directory
> 

I get it now.  dired-current-directory is supposed to look at your 
vc-dired buffer and determine if the file you are checking in is
in the current default-directory or in a subdirectory thereof.
However, it can't seem to figure out the way subdirectories are
encoded in the buffer.  So, it barfs.  But, if you have it return
something sensible, like default-directory, then it prompts you for
a log and checks in the marked file.  I haven't tried multiple
files yet.  No idea how to fix it completely.

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