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

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Message #133 received at 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Wolfgang.Scherer <at> gmx.de,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 39452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#39452: [PATCH] vc-git-state fails for filenames with wildcards
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:34:04 +0200

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 05:36:06 +0300 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> wrote:

> 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).

Yeah, with that patch my code works again when passing a directory name
beginning "~/" to vc-print-log-internal.  Thanks.

Steve Berman

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