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Glenn Morris <rgm@HIDDEN> writes:

> Maybe:
>
> cd /tmp
> mkdir git
> cd git
> touch 1
> git init
> git add .
> git commit -m "c1"
> cd /tmp
> ln -s git/1
> ln -s git git2

Thanks!

> emacs -Q /tmp/1
>  -> "Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link?"
>
> emacs -Q /tmp/git2/1
>  -> no prompt
>
> I don't think I see why that matters though, so maybe not the right example.

I think that's the correct recipe for the issue described.

And it does seem rather odd, doesn't it?  In both cases, we're following
a symlink, but we only get the warning in the first case?

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Maybe:

cd /tmp
mkdir git
cd git
touch 1
git init
git add .
git commit -m "c1"
cd /tmp
ln -s git/1
ln -s git git2

emacs -Q /tmp/1
 -> "Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link?"

emacs -Q /tmp/git2/1
 -> no prompt

I don't think I see why that matters though, so maybe not the right example.
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Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd <bojohan@HIDDEN> writes:

> When `vc-follow-symlinks' is `ask' (the default) Emacs follows links for
> files under version control, but fails to ask before doing so when any
> parent directory is a symlink.
>
> E.g.
> /x/y/link  (asks)
> /x/link/z  (doesn't ask)
>
> The following commit changed two occurrences of `file-chase-links' to
> `buffer-file-truename' in vc-hooks.el. A third occurrence of
> file-chase-links was left alone however, which fools the querying logic
> for files where the directory part of the name contains symlinks.

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

Some work has been done on vc/symlinks since this bug was reported, so
this may or may not have been fixed in the development version of
Emacs.  Are you still seeing this there?

If so, could you provide a script that sets up a directory structure
that demonstrates the bug?

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When `vc-follow-symlinks' is `ask' (the default) Emacs follows links for
files under version control, but fails to ask before doing so when any
parent directory is a symlink.

E.g.
/x/y/link  (asks)
/x/link/z  (doesn't ask)

The following commit changed two occurrences of `file-chase-links' to
`buffer-file-truename' in vc-hooks.el. A third occurrence of
file-chase-links was left alone however, which fools the querying logic
for files where the directory part of the name contains symlinks.


commit 33f95a82e97cac000a98dc5b1100ad7a095e12d3
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@HIDDEN>
Date:   Sat Nov 22 05:23:42 2008 +0000

    (vc-follow-link, vc-find-file-hook):
    Use buffer-file-truename to handle symlinks in any part of the filename.
Acknowledgement sent to Johan Bockgård <bojohan@HIDDEN>:
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