From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: 50572@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mtmgx6gg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dfkxyt4.fsf@elite.giraud>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-06 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-13 15:47 bug#50572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] fix VC to find the responsible backend with the most specific path Manuel Giraud
2021-09-13 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 23:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-14 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 7:57 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-14 7:50 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-14 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 12:08 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-14 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 15:15 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-14 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 9:17 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-15 10:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 11:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 10:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 11:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 11:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 12:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 0:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 15:01 ` Andy Moreton
2021-11-06 18:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 22:30 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2021-11-06 22:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-07 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 9:28 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-08 9:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 10:37 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-09 3:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-09 8:09 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-09 22:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-09 8:51 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-09 23:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 0:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-10 0:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-10 0:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-10 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11 2:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11 7:46 ` Michael Albinus
2021-11-11 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11 10:46 ` Michael Albinus
2021-11-11 12:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-12 3:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-12 9:51 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-12 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-12 15:09 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-12 15:41 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-12 19:21 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-11-12 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-14 0:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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