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[PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards

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Message #130 received at 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>,
 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 05:36:06 +0300

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On 27.08.2021 22:57, Stephen Berman wrote:
> I just discovered that some code I have that uses vc-print-log-internal
> broke after the literal-pathspecs change; specifically, my code passes a
> directory name beginning with "~/" to vc-print-log-internal, and this
> had worked fine till that change, which broke it, and I found I have to
> wrap the directory name in expand-file-name to make the code work again.
> Is this expected fallout from that change or was I perhaps misusing
> vc-print-log-internal and was just lucky that it had worked before?

Here's a patch which restores vc-print-log-internal's behavior without 
major changes. Check it out (attached).

[vc-print-log-internal-restore.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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