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29.0.50; (vc-print-log) broken over TRAMP

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51497: 29.0.50; (vc-print-log) broken over TRAMP
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 10:45:50 +0000

On Sun 07 Nov 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:03:24 +0000
>> 
>> Looking at this again, Trying "C-x v l" for INSTALL in the repo master
>> branch gives (rewrapped for clarity):
>> 
>>   fatal: :(literal)c:/emacs/git/emacs/master/nt/INSTALL:
>>   'c:/emacs/git/emacs/master/nt/INSTALL' is outside repository at
>>   '/c/emacs/git/emacs/master'
>> 
>> This appears to be due to the translation between win32 and cygwin
>> (posix) filenames.
>
> Right, and so the immediate suspect is cygwin-mount.el.  That command
> works flawlessly for me, FWIW.

Yes. It is probably due to the ":(literal)" prefix names not matching
the patterns that cygwin-mount.el adds to file-name-handler-alist.

    AndyM

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