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From: | Andy Moreton |
Subject: | bug#50572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] fix VC to find the responsible backend with the most specific path. |
Date: | Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:30:39 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Sat 06 Nov 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > 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.) Longer is better yes, but the patch counts characters when it should count directories to determine which path is longer. AndyM
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