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[PATCH] project--find-in-directory resolves symlinks

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dancol <at> dancol.org
Subject: bug#77122: [PATCH] project--find-in-directory resolves symlinks
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:16:33 +0200

On 24/03/2025 17:15, Ship Mints wrote:
> I'm curious to hear more about why people would object to (project-root 
> project-obj) being canonicalized.  I don't think many people ever 
> manually enter project dirs.  The persisted known projects, I'd think, 
> would also benefit from no duplicates.

I wonder if you yourself would prefer for all buffer-file-name values, 
and default-directory values, to be canonicalized as well.

The same reasoning would seem to apply to them too anyway.

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