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Re: [BUG] git_path() returns relative paths

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 28, 2013, 09:06 UTC
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> I think instead of letting the kernel walk the path, emacs does it by
>> itself.
>
> If this were true, shouldn't we be able to reproduce the behavior with
> my no-submodules symlink testcase?  How can it resolve symlinks in one
> case, and not in the other case?

In the no-submodules symlink test case, the path given to the editor is .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG, no following ".." back in the symlink target. This bug can be reproduced without git involved:

mkdir z z/a z/b echo ha >z/a/file ln -s z/b cd b cat ../a/file emacs ../a/file # fail to open 'file'

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Duy
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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenJul 27, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013
  5. Duy NguyenJul 27, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013
  7. Duy NguyenJul 27, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013
  9. Jiang XinJul 27, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 28, 2013
  11. Duy NguyenJul 28, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 28, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenJul 28, 2013
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 28, 2013
  15. Duy NguyenJul 28, 2013
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 28, 2013
  17. Fredrik GustafssonJul 27, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 27, 2013

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