Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.09.2019 3:25, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> FWIW, I simply cannot see what could be the advantage of not going
> through `vc-call-backend`.

Two reasons. None of them insurmountable, but:

1. Not having to worry about changing the API to accommodate future needs.

2. Very uneven backend capabilities, and the necessity to set up 
fallbacks. As you can see, even now Git requires a modern-enough version 
to support EXTRA-IGNORES. And, well, project--files-in-directory is 
private, at least for now.