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26.0.50; vc-follow-symlinks doesn't work after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge contents of local symbolic links"

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From: "Diego A. Mundo" <dieggsy <at> protonmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.0.50;
 vc-follow-symlinks doesn't work after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge
 contents of local symbolic links"
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 23:14:08 -0400

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Using (setq vc-follow-symlinks t) after emacs -q no longer seems to have any effect after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge contents of local symbolic links". That is, using this setting, I expect visiting a symlink to a version controlled file to take me to the directory of the original file (which was the previous behavior), but now instead of that I am kept in the symlink directory. If I revert this commit, the behavior goes back to normal.

- Diego

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: "Diego A. Mundo" <dieggsy <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 28270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28270: 26.0.50;
 vc-follow-symlinks doesn't work after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge
 contents of local symbolic links"
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:07:14 -0400

"Diego A. Mundo" wrote:

> Using (setq vc-follow-symlinks t) after emacs -q no longer seems to
> have any effect after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge contents of
> local symbolic links". That is, using this setting, I expect visiting
> a symlink to a version controlled file to take me to the directory of
> the original file (which was the previous behavior), but now instead
> of that I am kept in the symlink directory.

I can't reproduce this in 01832ec. Maybe it was fixed by recent changes?

Tested with

cd /tmp
ln -s /path/to/emacs/git/master/README
/path/to/emacs/git/master/src/emacs -Q --eval '(setq vc-follow-symlinks t)' README

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From: "Diego A. Mundo" <dieggsy <at> protonmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "28270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <28270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#28270: 26.0.50;
 vc-follow-symlinks doesn't work after commit e8001d4c27 "Do not munge
 contents of local symbolic links"
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:35:36 -0400

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I think your'e right and some recent commit fixed this, perhaps 7b86997 or c1854b1.

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