Re: VC registered, but ignored

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31/08/2023 18:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> In a repository where *.txt files are ignored, I added to VC a file
> with the .txt extension, and was surprised to see the ':' indicator on
> the mode line although the file was up-to-date.  Moreover, the tooltip
> said the file was "locally modified".  That had me puzzled for a few
> minutes, until I saw the code in vc-hooks.el.

You added it with 'C-x v v'?

We have a problem of sorts, or a break in the abstration, where 
(vc-state buffer-file-name) would return nil instead of 'ignored.

So the problem is your annotation won't show up if you just open an 
ignored file (for Git backend, at least). Is that okay for your purposes?

As for which character to use, maybe a period? Although that depends on 
what you want to bring attention to: usually people are happy to keep 
ignored files ignored.