bug#50572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] fix VC to find the responsible backend with the most specific path.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> Picking the more specific filename is good, but the longest string is
> the wrong measure: what is wanted is the deepest path. For example:
>
>   verylongdirname/foo
>   a/b/c/foo
>
> The second is a shorter string, but more specific.

But didn't it just traverse upwards?  In which case longer is more
specific.  (I may be misremembering the patch.)

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