Subject: bug#23436: [PATCH] Attemp to use the true name of a file to determine responsible vc if the genuine name does not work.

From: Hong Xu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:49:15 -0700

On 10/19/2016 04:37 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 19.10.2016 22:33, Hong Xu wrote:
>> +        (dolist (file-path (list file (file-truename file)))
> 
> Why not just use the true name?

Because sometimes we track symlinks specifically. The symlink files may
link to a file in a different repo, for example a git submodule.