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> From: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:32:30 -0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> I realized I forgot to describe the problem I am seeing.  If I am editing a file in a sandbox, for example, emacs
> $WORK/src/bin/app1/main.c, then need to find a tag (M-.) under 25.2 it always gives me two choices, both
> are same, except one shows the sym-linked directory and the other shows the realpath directory.  Forcing
> me to have to chose.

What do you see in the TAGS file in this case?  Are there 2 entries
there for each function/variable, one for the real directory and
another for the symlink, or is there only one entry?