Subject: bug#16577: 24.3; Ido omitting directories with similar names to other directories

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:15:20 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Then completion-ignored-extensions is not the right mechanism for
> ignoring those directories.
>
> (I'm quite sure that this was discussed in some distant past, just not
> about Git.)

Sure it was, and it was literally the exact same problem three years
ago, but it suffered from the emacs-devel disease (talked about, but
nothing ever happened, AFAIK):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00413.html

What Someone needs to do:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00459.html