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29.0.50; project-find-file don't work on a project with many submodules

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Message #8 received at 55396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eason Huang <aqua0210 <at> foxmail.com>, 55396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55396: 29.0.50; project-find-file don't work on a project
 with many submodules
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 04:48:00 +0300

On 13.05.2022 15:56, Eason Huang wrote:
> I try to use `M-x project-find-file` in my `.emacs.d` config project. It
> takes a long time(about 1 minutes), and finally get a error as bellow:
> 
> ```
> process-file: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
> ```
> 
> The .emacs.d project include 95 submudules of Git, is this too huge for
> project.el?

Hi! That's a lot, but the above error indicates excess recursion. Do the 
submodules in your repo in turn have checked out submodules inside, and 
so on?

As a workaround, you can set project-vc-merge-submodules to nil (at 
least temporarily, until we get a better fix).

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