From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <86mtmgx6gg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877dfkxyt4.fsf@elite.giraud> <87cznef8ah.fsf@gnus.org> <86ilx5iaze.fsf@gmail.com> <87pmrdb0zv.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19789"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (windows-nt) To: 50572@debbugs.gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:z+GUhHPQOTu9q5fVYxFXQdjG/0E= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 06 23:31:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUDP-00051n-FF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43466 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUDO-00059p-0U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUDG-00059P-Jd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUDG-00046t-Aa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUDG-00030h-4R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:31:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <877dfkxyt4.fsf@elite.giraud> Resent-From: Andy Moreton Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:31:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50572 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.163623784811553 (code B ref -1); Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:31:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Nov 2021 22:30:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51036 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUD2-00030G-K5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:45110) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUD0-000309-V5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUD0-00052c-J7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41020) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUCz-00044n-Bi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjUCx-0004XQ-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:30:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:219170 Archived-At: On Sat 06 Nov 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Andy Moreton 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