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

Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:55:13 +0200

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 12:38 AM Stefan Monnier via Emacs development
discussions. <[email protected]> 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).
>
> 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.


I see.