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

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmitry <at> gutov.dev, dancol <at> dancol.org
Subject: Re: bug#77122: [PATCH] project--find-in-directory resolves symlinks
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:26:11 -0400

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:25:44 -0400
> > Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, 77122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmitry <at> gutov.dev
> >
> > To concretely demonstrate the differences, the function project-name
> will return different results for each
> > project object based on buffers loaded from different paths, despite the
> projects being equivalent.
> >
> > project-name is defined as:
> >
> > (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name (project-root project)))
> >
> > If the root directory is determined to be different, the objects return
> different names (and different roots).
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding what Daniel wrote, the above is actually a
> feature from his POV.
>

Indeed, it might be, but I'm curious what tooling he's using that depends
on project-root not being "absolute" so to speak, and relative to his
ambient default-directory.

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