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project crash, file-name-directory "~", file-equal-p nil

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 75983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75983: project error with file-name-directory "~" returning
 nil
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:10:59 -0500

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I don't know. Could have been from an older project, yes.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev> wrote:

> 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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