On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 03:16, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> On 09.12.2020 17:08, Tobias Rittweiler wrote:
>
> > please find patches attached to this e-mail that make it possible to
> > set 'xref-file-name-display' to 'relative-to-project-root'. If so set,
> > the file names in the *xref* buffer will be shortened by the
> 'project-root'
> > and 'project-external-roots' of 'project-current'. Note that xref.el
> already
> > requires 'project'.
> >
> > The patches are relative to commit 2581beb from Wed Dec 9 00:54:34 2020
> > +0000
>
> Could you clarify the reason for the first patch? Did you have any test
> failures (on Ubuntu 20.04.1?) with the current test code because of the
> "random" filesystem traversal order? Thanks!
>

The original code *did* already fix the file order in the test where it
actually mattered:
'xref-matches-in-directory-finds-some-for-bar'. Note that no other test
actually involve
locations from multiple files in a way that is dependent on the order.

The patch does not serve any actual utility except for code hygiene: it
reduces a bit
of trivial code duplication. Feel free to ignore it. (But in case you do
add tests for
'xref-file-name-display' being 'relative', please make sure you write the
tests in a way
that makes it independent from the filesystem traversal order.)

Tobias