Re: master 1d91d9b717d: project-vc-dir: Use truenames

Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:55:04 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
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On 24/07/2026 16:59, Stéphane Marks wrote:
> I don't understand how a truename can have a back end but a symlink to 
> it cannot even if the truename is a directory.  It is transparently the 
> same under almost all contexts (under Unix-like systems).

See my previous message.

Maybe there are other cases as well, this is just what I have managed to 
reproduce with directory symlinks. Symlinked individual files can have 
that as well, but we couldn't check those in 'M-x vc-dir'.