[Bug: 21.4.19] vc can not visit older versions beside the first one

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 27 September 2007, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> this is very odd problem, since vc never caused my any
> headache. However today I wanted to visit an old version of a while
> under version control and I could not. I attach the bug and I am not
> sure whom to blame, rcs or the vc interface.

Hm...

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Running co...FAILED (status 1)")

On first look, this doesn't necessarily look like a vc problem to me - doesn't 
the above mean that your "co" command failed (exited with a non-zero status 
code (1))?  Did you try it on the command line, without vc?

> (vc ver: 1.41 upstream: No-Upstream-Ver)

On a related note, version 1.41 of the vc package is the "old" vc, which is on 
its way out of the way of the long overdue sync of vc with GNU Emacs plus 
some additional utilities, and it's unlikely that the old one will receive 
much attention any more at all.  It would be very helpful if you could test 
the current vc package from the experimental packages area.