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

Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:48:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
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> 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).

If `~/.emacs.d/` is a symlink to `~/config/emacs/` and `~/config/` is
under Git but `~/` isn't, then VC will tend to consider that
`~/.emacs.d/` doesn't have a backend whereas its truename does.


=== Stefan