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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 21535@debbugs.gnu.org, "Johan Bockgård" <bojohan@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21535: 25.0.50; vc-follow-symlinks=ask is ineffective for directory links
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:57:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czzlirzn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fweek27df8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:55:07 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe:
>
> cd /tmp
> mkdir git
> cd git
> touch 1
> git init
> git add .
> git commit -m "c1"
> cd /tmp
> ln -s git/1
> ln -s git git2

Thanks!

> emacs -Q /tmp/1
>  -> "Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link?"
>
> emacs -Q /tmp/git2/1
>  -> no prompt
>
> I don't think I see why that matters though, so maybe not the right example.

I think that's the correct recipe for the issue described.

And it does seem rather odd, doesn't it?  In both cases, we're following
a symlink, but we only get the warning in the first case?

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 20:00 bug#21535: 25.0.50; vc-follow-symlinks=ask is ineffective for directory links Johan Bockgård
2020-12-03 11:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 22:55   ` Glenn Morris
2020-12-07 14:57     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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