bug#77974: Manual updates for the VC-aware project backend

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28/04/2025 05:48, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon 28 Apr 2025 at 01:39am +03, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>
> > "Neither registered nor ignored" sounds like the definition for
> > "unregistered", actually.
> >
> > Sounds good to me as a phrasing (might even be more accurate than the Git
> > definition I quoted previously).
>
> Thanks.  I've tweaked the phrasing slightly.

Thank you.

> > > (And maybe we should rename the variable?)
> >
> > Doesn't seem worth the hassle for us and existing users, TBH.
>
> I've added a FIXME to keep thinking about it
> (hope it's okay with you for me to go ahead and add such a thing to
> project.el, let me know if not).
>
> My thinking is: if we have another very popular VCS in the future which
> doesn't use the name "untracked", then falling back on our own existing
> "unregistered" terminology to unify things would be better than using
> Git and Hg's "untracked" in this one place.

Sure. That seems like a pretty distant future, though.