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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:02:51 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Hong Xu <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:46:50 +0200
> 
> On Okt 20 2016, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > What bothers me is that the use case where there really is no backend
> > will now take twice as much time as it did before.
> 
> Perhaps only do that if the file is a symlink?

Something like that, yes.  Wouldn't a hard link also be a candidate?
Are there any others?