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23.0.60; vc-find-root heuristic unreliable on Windows with Cygwin

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
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 12:42:26 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> In other words, locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp is the last
>> directory in which you _do_ scan, whereas it might be simpler if it
>> were the first _not_ scanned.
>
> That was the intention, and it worked like that at some point.

I will check to see if I was talking rubbish when I said it was not...

> "\\`/[^/]+\\'" is not, because several people use revision control
> for /etc.

Yes, you are right.

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