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25.2; changes to .dir-locals.el are not picked up when .dir-locals.el is a symlink

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From: Dan Connolly <dckc <at> madmode.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.2; changes to .dir-locals.el are not picked up when .dir-locals.el
 is a symlink
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:47:21 -0600

1. Create ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el file to set tab-width to 4.
2. Visit ~/projects/m/xyz.c and verify that tabs use 4 spaces
3. mv ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el to ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
4. ln -s ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el
5. Change 4 6 in ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
6. in the xyz.c buffer, M-x revert-buffer

expected result:
7. tabs use 6 spaces

actual result:
7. no change; tabs still use 4 spaces

work-around:
(setq dir-locals-directory-cache nil) before step 6.




In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
 of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
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Message #8 received at 46122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dan Connolly <dckc <at> madmode.com>
Cc: 46122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46122: 25.2; changes to .dir-locals.el are not picked up
 when .dir-locals.el is a symlink
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:01:59 +0200

Dan Connolly <dckc <at> madmode.com> writes:

> 1. Create ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el file to set tab-width to 4.
> 2. Visit ~/projects/m/xyz.c and verify that tabs use 4 spaces
> 3. mv ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el to ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
> 4. ln -s ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el
> 5. Change 4 6 in ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
> 6. in the xyz.c buffer, M-x revert-buffer
>
> expected result:
> 7. tabs use 6 spaces
>
> actual result:
> 7. no change; tabs still use 4 spaces
>
> work-around:
> (setq dir-locals-directory-cache nil) before step 6.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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