(vc-cvs-parse-status): Note there are problems with

subdirectories.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 18cf78e04cb..6c0c3fec8b6 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-03-23  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
 
+        * vc-cvs.el (vc-cvs-parse-status): Note there are problems with
+        subdirectories.
+
         * vc.el (vc-status-prepare-status-buffer): Fix thinko.
         (vc-status-menu-map): Add binding for
         vc-status-kill-dir-status-process.  Add :enable for vc-status-refresh.
diff --git a/lisp/vc-cvs.el b/lisp/vc-cvs.el
index 98051b65430..a3a8b198956 100644
--- a/lisp/vc-cvs.el
+++ b/lisp/vc-cvs.el
@@ -812,6 +812,12 @@ For an empty string, nil is returned (invalid CVS root)."
           ;; Normalize CVS root record
           (list method user host root)))))
 
+;; XXX: This does not work correctly for subdirectories.  "cvs status"
+;; information is context sensitive, it contains lines like:
+;; cvs status: Examining DIRNAME
+;; and the file entries after that don't show the full path.
+;; Because of this vc-dired only shows changed files at the top level
+;; for CVS.
 (defun vc-cvs-parse-status (&optional full)
   "Parse output of \"cvs status\" command in the current buffer.
 Set file properties accordingly.  Unless FULL is t, parse only