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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>, 993@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#993: 23.0.60; vc-find-root heuristic unreliable on Windows with Cygwin
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:49:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4p2vzcdy.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i3ljw86r49.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:02:14 -0400")

>> Time to customize locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp I suppose...
> BTW, it seems you are stopping one directory too late, in that in
> order to stop Emacs looking up things like "/afs/.hg", I have to an
> add an element of the form "\\`/afs/[^/]+\\'".

Looks like a bug, then.

> In other words, locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp is the last
> directory in which you _do_ scan, whereas it might be simpler if it
> were the first _not_ scanned.

That was the intention, and it worked like that at some point.

> I would also suggest adding /home and perhaps /nfs, as well as /afs
> and /net, to the default. Actually, I don't see why the default stop
> should not just match "\\`/[^/]+\\'".

/home might be OK.  "\\`/[^/]+\\'" is not, because several people use
revision control for /etc.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17 20:14 bug#993: 23.0.60; vc-find-root heuristic unreliable on Windows with Cygwin Eric Hanchrow
2008-09-18  1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29  2:18   ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-29  3:02     ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-29 14:49       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-29 16:42         ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-29 18:58           ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-29 19:11             ` Glenn Morris
     [not found]             ` <18696.46415.755564.556955@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-10-30  1:07               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 15:05       ` Stefan Monnier

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