GNU bug report logs - #993
23.0.60; vc-find-root heuristic unreliable on Windows with Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Hanchrow <offby1 <at> blarg.net>

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:20:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Hanchrow <offby1 <at> blarg.net>
Subject: bug#993: 23.0.60; vc-find-root heuristic unreliable on Windows with Cygwin
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:05:58 -0400

>> Time to customize locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp I suppose...

> BTW, it seems you are stopping one directory too late, in that in
> order to stop Emacs looking up things like "/afs/.hg", I have to an
> add an element of the form "\\`/afs/[^/]+\\'".

I just tried it and it seems to work correctly for me (/net/toto was
not tried in (l-d-f "/net/foo/bar" "toto")).  Can you take a closer look?


        Stefan
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