GNU bug report logs - #75983
project crash, file-name-directory "~", file-equal-p nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 00:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 75983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 75983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75983: project error with file-name-directory "~" returning
 nil
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:49:46 +0200

Hi!

On 01/02/2025 13:04, Ship Mints wrote:
> Dmitry, I think the following patch to project--write-project-list might 
> suffice to avoid this in the future:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/project.el b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> index f2a27ff91dd..f9b3b8891bc 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> @@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ project--read-project-list
>                  (lambda (elem)
>                    (let ((name (car elem)))
>                      (list (if (file-remote-p name) name
> -                           (abbreviate-file-name name)))))
> +                           (file-name-as-directory (abbreviate-file- 
> name name))))))
>                  (condition-case nil
>                      (read (current-buffer))
>                    (end-of-file

Yeah, this is a decent solution, thanks.

Any idea though, how an entry without a trailing "/" got into that file? 
Written by some older version of project.el?
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