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29.4; emerge-files with tramp + local file fails

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jörg Sommer <joerg <at> jo-so.de>
Cc: 74352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74352: 29.4; emerge-files with tramp + local file fails
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:05:16 +0200

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:11:10 +0100
> From: Jörg Sommer <joerg <at> jo-so.de>
> 
> when running `emerge-files` with `/ssh:remote:file` and `~/local-file` I get
> the buffer `*emerge-diff-errors*` with:
> 
> ```
> diff: /tmp/tramp.wlcRNL: No such file or directory
> diff: /home/joerg/local-file: No such file or directory
> ```
> 
> This change solves the problem:
> 
> ```diff
> diff --git lisp/vc/emerge.el lisp/vc/emerge.el
> index ca48f2f3c7b..562041e4232 100644
> --- lisp/vc/emerge.el
> +++ lisp/vc/emerge.el
> @@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ emerge-make-diff-list
>    (setq emerge-diff-buffer (get-buffer-create "*emerge-diff*"))
>    (with-current-buffer
>        emerge-diff-buffer
> +    (setq default-directory (file-name-directory file-A))

Thanks, but why file-A?  Isn't the problem symmetric wrt the two
files?  Or what am I missing?

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