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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> IIRC, it allows backslashes (with such file names printed as
> "abc\\def"), but canonical file names use slashes even on Windows.
>
> So... IDK, call some function which "canonicalizes" the file name
> (expand-file-name?) and then use split-string?

Yeah, that sounds like a better implementation.

> This works much faster in the same 'sudo' session:
>
>   (split-string (expand-file-name buffer-file-name) "/")

expand-file-name wouldn't be the right thing here, though.  Do we have a
function somewhere that just does the slash translation and nothing
else?

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