Subject: Re: bug#77122: [PATCH] project--find-in-directory resolves symlinks

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:07 +0200

> From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:15:14 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
>  As this discussion shows, it might well be a "misrepresentation" in
>  some cases.
> 
> Maybe unexpected but not a misrepresentation.
> 
> In any case, the project object returned must be equivalent for both directories passed in and that's not how
> project.el is structured.  Using file-equal-p or any other method to find an "equivalent" project object but
> substitute the "expected" directory results in two objects that don't compare as equal and that's a
> misrepresentation IMO.

Thus my suggestion to make those objects 'equal', even if they aren't
'eq'.